Big Crowds As AAP Makes "Nationalism" Pitch In Ayodhya Before UP Election

Earlier this month AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh said the party would contest all 403 seats and expose the BJP's "fake nationalism"

Promises of "real nationalism" and, for the first time, "Ram Rajya" - both issues championed by the ruling BJP - marked the Aam Aadmi Party's formal start to campaigning in Uttar Pradesh for the 2022 election. Large crowds turned up at a tiranga, or flag, rally in UP's Faizabad, the 'twin town' to Ayodhya and where the Ram Temple is being built. The rally was led by Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh. "We got an opportunity to visit the Ram Janmabhoomi and met many saints who wished for our victory. We prayed for the AAP to get an opportunity to form the government in UP," Mr Sisodia told reporters today before the start of the rally. "We will form a government that will govern on ideals given by Lord Ram," he said.