AAP to contest all 36 Mumbai seats in upcoming Maharashtra elections

NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party on Monday announced that it will contest all 36 seats in Mumbai in the upcoming Maharashtra assembly elections. The party said that it had already begun 'extensive' preparations for the elections.
"We will contest in as many seats as possible, we feel that there is a vacuum for a welfare based political party here," said Preeti Menon, Mumbai president of AAP.
She said that the AAP is still part of the INDIA bloc, it will like other states (Punjab, Haryana, Delhi) contest the upcoming state assembly polls alone.
"We are still with the INDIA bloc whenever there is a need to come together to fight BJP's dictatorial fascist regime. You have to fight assembly election alone everywhere, we have contested in Punjab, Haryana and Delhi alone," she said.

Slamming the Eknath Shinde government in Maharashtra, she accused the CM of focusing on the prosperity of Ahmedabad saying that Shinde should be called the 'CM of Gujarat'.
"The current government here has betrayed the people. The focus of the this government is on the prosperity of Ahmedabad. I feel like Eknath Shinde should be called as the CM of Gujarat," Mumbai president of the AAP said.