NewsX: Aam Aadmi party plans to ride it's popularity wave, and contest more than 350 Lok Sabha seats

Undeterred by opinion polls predicting the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) would make limited impact in the Lok Sabha elections despite its performance in the Delhi polls, the party has decided to contest more than 350 of the total 543 seats.It also plans to make corruption and criminalization of politics prominent poll issues and has zeroed in on 162 seats especially where the sitting MPs are either facing criminal or corruption charges or have been deemed corrupt by AAP. They include several union ministers such as P Chidambaram (finance), Shushilkumar Shinde (home), Kapil Sibal (HRD and IT), Praful Patel (heavy industry), Kamal Nath (parliamentary affairs), Farooq Abdullah (renewable energy) and Salman Khursid (external affairs). The party also plans to take on former telecom minister A Raja of the DMK, who stepped down over the 2G spectrum scam.The decision was taken at AAP's national executive meeting on Thursday. "Since we want to weed out criminals and the corrupt from politics, we would surely be fighting the elections in these 162 seats," party spokesperson Sanjay Singh said.For More information on this news visit : http://www.newsx.com/Connect with us on Social platform at : http://www.facebook.com/newsxonlineSubscribe to our YouTube Channel : http://www.youtube.com/newsxlive