With the relaunch of its student wing to strengthen its base among the student community, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener and former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal of Delhi will again be active in the national capital.
Kejriwal on Tuesday relaunched Association of Students for Alternative Politics (ASAP). This student wing, earlier known as Chhatra Yuva Sangharsh Samiti, will exclusively be led by students from across the country.
The objective of ASAP will be to spread the issues related to education, educational institutions and students across the country and find solutions to the problems by discussing them.
Speaking at the relaunch, Kejriwal said that mainstream politics is the root cause of all the problems in our country.
“AAP ruled Delhi for 10 years and now we are in Punjab and how we run the government and the type of politics we did in Delhi was alternative politics. Every aspect of our lives is affected by the mainstream media and this is the root cause of all the problems of the country,” he said.
“The BJP has started destroying the education model created by the AAP in the past 10 years. This is because a good education is not part of mainstream politics. It is a part of mainstream politics,” he added.
The relaunch will also include a social wing within the student organisation, designed to increase student participation in social service and community engagement. ASAP is expected to contest the upcoming Delhi University Student Union (DUSU) elections in Sept this year, signalling a serious foray into campus politics.
CYSS, which was launched in Sept 2014, fought student union elections in several universities but could not replicate the success of AAP.
