The one-year-old ruling party in Delhi, Aam Aadmi Party, will be focussing on 9 states in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections - Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Odisha.
Party ideologue Yogendra Yadav told a Delhi newspaper that West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Kerala were tough because parties in these states were mostly cadre based.
Yadav said, political parties in these nine states have been thoroughly discredited because of corruption and people have lost confidence in these parties, giving AAP an opportunity to take advantage of people's anger.
Haryana and UP alone account for 90 Lok Sabha seats, and Yadav believes his party will get a Delhi-like response, if not better, in these two states.
He said, there are corruption charges against politicians of both Congress and BJP, and AAP has come to provide the true alternative.
On Tamil Nadu, Kerala and West Bengal, he said, cadre based parties are ruling the roost there and AAP may find it a bit difficult to create a larger base.
"We hope to contest from at least 20 states", said Yadav.
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