AAP At The Grassroots And Its Big Strides In Gujarat

“We started with five people in Surat sometime around January 2018, soon after the December assembly elections in which I contested as an AAP candidate,” recalls Ram Dhaduk, now the party’s general secretary (organisation) for south Gujarat.

Dhaduk, who played a pivotal role in the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) emerging as the main opposition party in the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) elections in February 2021,



in whi­ch the Congress scored a zero, adds with a smile, “We can’t be less than 2 lakh today; have lost the count.”

He says the organisation is being built brick by brick with sheer, relentless legwork of enthusia­s­tic cadres, who visit every home in every lane and bylane continuously to convince voters.