By way of PTI
PANAJI: Aam Aadmi Birthday party (AAP) nationwide convener Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday stated his birthday celebration will welcome Utpal Parrikar, son of former Goa leader minister past due Manohar Parrikar, if he’s keen to enroll in it.
Utpal Parrikar has been lobbying to get the BJP’s price tag for the Panaji Meeting seat, which his father had represented for greater than twenty years.
However the ruling birthday celebration has given him the chilly shoulder. Meeting elections in Goa are scheduled to be hung on February 14.
Aside from the BJP and the Congress, the AAP, the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC), amongst others, are within the fray.
Replying to a query requested all over his interplay with mediapersons right here, Kejriwal stated, “I admire Manohar Parrikar. If his son is keen to enroll in AAP, he’s maximum welcome.”
Panaji constituency is recently represented by way of BJP MLA Atanasio Monserratte.
Lately, BJP’s Goa election in-charge Devendra Fadnavis had centered Utpal Parrikar, pronouncing that simply because an aspirant is the son of Manohar Parrikar or any chief, did not qualify him for the BJP’s price tag.
Kejriwal has been in Goa since Friday.
All over his consult with, he participated within the birthday celebration’s door-to-door marketing campaign at St Andre, Shiroda and Cortalim constituencies.
Responding to a query, the Delhi Leader Minister stated his that if required, his birthday celebration will move forward with forge a post-poll alliance with non-BJP political outfits in Goa.
“However why would any person vote for Congress? Other folks know that in the event that they vote for Congress, as soon as their MLA will get elected, he’ll move to BJP,” he stated.