Delhi CM Atishi Launches Crowdfunding Campaign to Collect Rs 40 Lakh to Contest Elections

New Delhi: Ahead of the February 5 assembly elections, Delhi Chief Minister on Sunday launched a crowdfunding campaign to collect funds for contesting the polls. Announcing the campaign in a press conference, Atishi said she hoped that people would support her party's politics of work and honesty. She said that for fighting polls, she requires Rs 40 lakh.

She has also released an online link for people to donate money, saying that people can make contributions as per their wish like Rs 100 or Rs 1000. The CM added that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has always fought elections with donations from the common man and it helped them pursue the politics of work and honesty.

Atishi is contesting polls from Kalkaji seat.

Notably in December, former AAP Minister and party candidate from Jangpura, Manish Sisodia launched a crowdfunding platform seeking financial support from people for his poll campaign.

Delhi's 70-member assembly will go to polls on February 5 and the results will be announced on February 8.

"Despite being in power in Delhi for 10 years, the AAP does not have even a rupee of corruption. We will contest the polls with the support of the people of Delhi and the country, as has been done in the previous elections," she said on the question of BJP's claim that the CAG has projected a loss of Rs 2,026 crore due to the Delhi government's now-scrapped excise policy.

Hitting out at the BJP, she said that it could be possible that the saffron party has collected enough money from their friends and through government contracts and they do not need to collect funds for contesting elections.

Atishi is pitted against former MP and BJP candidate Ramesh Bidhuri.

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