Gurgaon: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which has announced it will not be contesting the October 15 Haryana assembly polls, yesterday organised a protest in the Civil Lines area here against “tainted” candidates.
AAP activists exhorted the electorate to not vote for outgoing Haryana youth and sports minister Sukhbir Kataria and Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Umesh Aggarwal.
Both Kataria and Aggarwal are contesting from Gurgaon assembly constituency, with Kataria as an independent.
Senior AAP leader Yogendra Yadav had on Wednesday released a list of 11 such candidates in Haryana, including Gopal Kanda of the Haryana Lokhit Party, INLD’s Abhay Chautala, Congress leaders Rao Narender Singh, Naresh Selval, Vinod Bhayana and Ramniwas Ghorela, Sombir Sangwan (BJP), and Ved Pal Tanwar (HJC) besides Ramkishan Fauji and Sumita Singh (both Congress).
Meanwhile, Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal will address a rally of e-rickshaw drivers here Wednesday to demand that rules allowing the plying of battery-powered vehicles in Delhi be simplified.
The former chief minister of Delhi will meet the the drivers at Jantar Mantar on Wednesday and also demand the removal of the “exorbitant fees” for the registration of e-rickshaws.
“Though the notification will allow the e-rickshaws to ply legally on Delhi roads, it is still incomplete and does not fully address the concerns of e-rickshaw drivers,” the Aam Aadmi Party said in a statement here Sunday.
Last week, the government notified a separate category of battery-operated vehicles — e-rickshaw and e-cart — allowing them to ply in the city.Agencies
