Claiming he was not going to fight the Lok Sabha elections, AAP Convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said his party would contest against those MPs who are corrupt so as to ensure a cleaner Parliament house.
AAP Convener Arvind Kejriwal with other party members. Danish Raza/Firstpost
Speaking at an executive council meeting of his party in New Delhi, Kejriwal said he was here to end corruption in the country, saying it was time to throw out those in Parliament who had criminal cases against them. He further urged party workers to draw up a list of strong, clean candidates who could enter politics.
The party has decided to contest more than 350 of the 543 Lok Sabha seats and has said it will concentrate on 162 seats where the sitting MPs are facing criminal or corruption charges, or have been deemed corrupt by AAP.
"Our aim is to end dynasty politics, we will give people a third option... AAP should draw up a list of good candidates," he said.
Hitting out at the past governments in Delhi, Kejriwal said his government has done in a month what previous tenures could not do in 65 years. "There needs to be a will to do things...," Kejriwal said, adding that the "people in India are poor but governments are rich."
He further announced that his cabinet would take up the Delhi Lokayukta bill for consideration today, saying corruption in the state was already on the decline.
Kejriwal also read out a list of MPs he said the party must fight against to ensure their defeat. Below are some of the names.
Suresh Kalmadi - Congress
Sushilkumar Shinde - Congress
Praful Patel - NCP
BS Yeddyurappa - BJP
Anant Kumar - BJP
Veerappa Moily - Congress
Chidambaram - Congress
MK Alagiri - DMK
VK Vasan - Congress
Kanimozhi - DMK
Salman Khurshid - Congress
Mayawati - BSP
Mulayam Singh Yadav - SP
Anu Tandon - Congress
Sriprakash Jaiswal - Congress
Jaganmohan Reddy - YSR Congress
Kamal Nath - Congress
Pawan Kumar Bansal - Congress
Farooq Abdullah - National Conference
Naveen Jindal - Congress
Kapil Sibal - Congress
Sharad Pawar (if he contests) - NCP
A Raja - DMK
Tarun Gogoi - Congress
Rahul Gandhi - Congress
HD Kumaraswamy - JDS
Nitin Gadkari - BJP
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