MCD Elections: AAP calls for minimum donation of Rs 272, says it stands for ‘transparent funding’
Less than a week before the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has appealed citizens to donate money to the party with a minimum amount of Rs 270 for a ‘corruption free’ government.
“AAP believes in Transparent Funding, it runs on your money. #Donate2AAP – Rs 272 – Rs 2720 – Rs 27200 or Rs 272 MCD Candidates,” said the party in a twitter post.
AAP believes in Transparent Funding, it runs on your money.#Donate2AAP
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For 272 MCD Candidateshttps://t.co/5r5eR3wiVu pic.twitter.com/Z6WxfF3yUO— AAP (@AamAadmiParty) April 18, 2017
The MCD elections will be a test for AAP and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal after the humiliating defeat in the recently concluded Punjab and Goa elections.
Kejriwal has appealed to people to give AAP a similar mandate in the upcoming MCD polls as it had got in the 2015 Assembly polls. He has also claimed that he will make Delhi look like London if voted to power in the upcoming municipal polls.
Several people who donated Rs 272 and Rs 2,720 to the party also took to the micro-blogging site to share pictures of a receipt consisting their name, amount donated, …read more