New Delhi: The popularity of the Aam Aadmi Party is rapidly rising, many working professionals and prominent personalities are joining the common man's party. This now poses an immediate challenge to mainstream parties in the upcoming Lok sabha elections.
After it's dramatic rise to power in Delhi elections, the AAP has claimed that the enrollment of new members in the party has increased tenfold.
Many prominent faces like ex-Infosys board member V Balakrishnan, Remo Fernandes, Samir Nair have joined the AAP. Party worker, Dilip, said, "We got Rs 50 lakh per day after December 8."
Most of the new faces have quit their jobs to join the party. Former Royal Bank of Scotland executive Meera Sanyal has also joined the AAP and has offered to contest from the Mumbai South Constituency in the 2014 Lok Sabha Polls.
In Haryana - two time MP Sirsa Het Ram has joined the AAP, where Party ideologue Yogendra Yadav has already started campaigning. In Gujarat the party's membership has crossed the 1 lakh mark. AAP plans to contest all 26 Lok Sabha seats in the state.
Sukhdev Patel, Convener of AAP asserted, "Our membership has increased manifold."
AAP's popularity is also surging in South India. In Kerala over 5000 people joined the AAP after its sparkling Delhi Debut. And more than 2000 people - many of them IT professionals signed up during AAP's membership drive in Chennai.
Party worker, Kiran Shaw said, "Professionals are getting more and more interested in pursuing political career and AAP has obviously offered them a very interesting platform for doing that."
The AAP's growing popularity and influx of prominent faces and young working professionals into the party is a major challenge for mainstream parties especially with the Lok Sabha polls just months away.
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