No plan to tie up with TMC in WB Assembly polls: AAP leaders

An AAP activist said they will contest all 294 seats but before that their focus will be to build an organisational set-up

Though Mamata Banerjee supported Aam Aadmi Party in the Delhi Assembly election, the party's leaders in West Bengal today ruled out any possibility of tying up with Trinamool Congress in next years's Assembly polls, saying they would contest all 294 seats. The immediate goal would be to build an organisational set-up first in the state, they told a press conference called in the wake of the party's success in the Delhi polls.

"We will contest all 294 seats in the Assembly polls in West Bengal. But before that our focus will be to build our organisation," AAP activist Alok Chaturvedi, who contested unsuccessfully in the 2014 Lok Sabha election in the North Kolkata seat, said. Another AAP leader Suraj Narayan Singh, who contested the LS poll last year from Howrah, said the Bengal unit had already started the ball rolling enrolling 70,000 activists in the state through its "Mission Bistaar" programme.