Aam Aadmi Party
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National Political Party in India
Key facts
- Abbreviation
- AAP
- Leader
- Arvind Kejriwal
- Spokesperson
- Saurabh Bhardwaj and others
- Rajya sabha leader
- Sanjay Singh
- Lok sabha leader
- Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer
- Founders
- Arvind Kejriwal , Prasant Bhushan, Yogendra Yadav and others
- Founded
- 26 November 2012 ; 13 years ago ( 2012-11-26 )
- Headquarters
- 206, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg, New Delhi , Delhi , India 110002
- Student wing
- Association of Students for Alternative Politics (ASAP) Chhatra Yuva Sangharsh Samiti (CYSS)
- Youth wing
- AAP Youth Wing (AYW)
- Women s wing
- AAP Mahila Shakti (AMS)
- Labour wing
- Shramik Vikas Sangathan (SVS)
- Ideology
- Welfarism Indian nationalism Populism Secularism
- Political position
- Centre
- Colours
- Blue
- Eci status
- National Party
- Alliance
- INDIA (2023–25)
- Seats in rajya sabha
- 3 / 245
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Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- political party
- Official name
- आम आदमी पार्टी
- Country
- India
- Founded by
- Arvind Kejriwal
- Headquarters
- New Delhi
- Chairperson
- Arvind Kejriwal
- Official website
- aamaadmiparty.org
- Political ideology
- secularism
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- inception
- 2012-11-26
- topic's main category
- Category:Aam Aadmi Party
- Commons category
- Aam Aadmi Party
- member category
- Category:Aam Aadmi Party politicians
- sRGB color hex triplet
- 266BBA
- social media followers
- 6445911
- political alignment
- centrism
- short name
- ਆਪ
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Encyclopedic overview
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP; lit. 'Common Man Party') is a political party in India founded by Arvind Kejriwal and his then-allies on 26 November 2012. The AAP is currently the governing party in the Indian state of Punjab, has representation in both houses of the Parliament of India, and forms the official opposition in Delhi. On 10 April 2023, the AAP was officially granted national party status by the Election Commission of India. Its election symbol is a broom.
The party came into existence following a difference of opinion between Kejriwal and activist Anna Hazare regarding the incorporation of electoral politics into the popular 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement, which had been demanding a Jan Lokpal Bill since 2011. Hazare preferred the movement should remain politically unaligned, whereas Kejriwal felt the failure of the agitation route necessitated changes in the government's representation itself.
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