UP civic polls AAP’s next big target: ‘Will halve house tax, waive water tax’

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Launching its campaign for the urban local body elections in Uttar Pradesh, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday announced it would reduce house tax by half and waive water tax in municipalities it will win...

At a press conference in Lucknow, Rajya Sabha MP and the partys state in-charge Sanjay Singh said, We will waive water tax and bring down house tax by half in places where we get the chairpersons post..

Claiming that the people were highly influenced by the principles of AAP national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the MP said this was the reason the people of the national capital elected him thrice for his work in education, health, transport and power sectors...

Though the AAP failed to make an impact in the Assembly elections last year, contesting the urban local body polls is part of the partys strategy to keep a toehold in UP even as it looks to make a push in other Hindi heartland states such as Rajasthan, where Arvind Kejriwal will address a rally on Monday, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh..

Ahead of the urban local body polls, a five-member commission constituted by the Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday submitted a 350-page report to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in the elections..

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