A crowdfunding drive initiated by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in-charge for the East Delhi Parliamentary constituency, Atishi, attracted donations worth ₹2 lakh within hours.
It also elicited endorsements from Yashwant Sinha, Javed Jaffery and Jignesh Mewani.
“The drive was launched by Atishi at 3 p.m. on Wednesday. Several senior political leaders, including former Union Minister Yashwant Sinha, Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani, actor Javed Jaffery, lawyer-activist Karuna Nundy, among others endorsed the campaign,” the party said in a statement.
Party leaders said the campaign will continue online targeting to raise a fund of ₹70 lakh which is the permissible limit of expenditure in parliamentary polls as per the Election Commission.
Impactful presence
Within three hours of launch of the campaign on crowdfunding platform www.OurDemocracy.in, over ₹2 lakh were donated by supporters of the AAP leader, the party said further.
While Mr. Sinha tweeted a video endorsing Ms. Atishi’s work, Mr. Jaffery said her presence in the Parliament will ensure public education becomes a part of political discourse.
Gujarat MLA Mewani said Atishi will be an impactful presence in the Parliament having “too few” women parliamentarians.