AAP completes five years, calls for BJP's ouster from Gujarat

Kejriwal's appeal suggests the party is coming to terms with its role as the third pole of Indian politics

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) which was founded on November 26, 2012, turned five this Sunday. At a public rally to mark the occasion, party chief Arvind Kejriwal asked people in Gujarat to vote for any party that could defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The Congress is the principal opposition party in Gujarat and the only party in the state with the wherewithal to challenge the BJP.

The AAP had formed its first government in Delhi with the outside support of the Congress in 2013 but has generally remained equidistant from the BJP as well as the Congress.

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