AAP Timeline

November 25, 2017 07:36 am | Updated 07:36 am IST

NEW DELHI, 13/10/2017: Aam Aadmi Party councillors and volunteers protest against the Metro fare hike outside the Udyog Bhawan Metro Station, led by the Party's Delhi convenor Gopal Rai, near Urban Development Ministry Nirman Bhawan in New Delhi on Friday. 
Photo: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar

NEW DELHI, 13/10/2017: Aam Aadmi Party councillors and volunteers protest against the Metro fare hike outside the Udyog Bhawan Metro Station, led by the Party's Delhi convenor Gopal Rai, near Urban Development Ministry Nirman Bhawan in New Delhi on Friday. Photo: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar

October 2, 2012:   Arvind Kejriwal announces formation of his political party in Delhi

November 24, 2012 : The party is named Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)

2013:  Rallies are organised across Delhi in 2013 to gather support and attack the Congress government in the Capital over inflated power bills

December 4, 2013 : Delhi goes to elections

December 8, 2013 : Kejriwal's AAP makes a stunning debut and emerges as the second largest party after the BJP in the Delhi elections

December 122013:  Delhi BJP meets then Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung. Refuses to form the government saying they do not have the numbers

December 13, 2013:  The Congress, which won 8 seats in the Delhi election, submits a letter of unconditional support for the AAP to the L-G

December 14, 2013:   AAP lays down 18 conditions for the Congress and the BJP for working together. Kejriwal seeks 10 days' time from the L-G to decide whether he will form the government in Delhi

December 18, 2013:   AAP announces public referendum to decide whether it should form the government in Delhi with Congress support

December 21, 2013:  Congress says support to AAP is 'issue-based' and not unconditional.

December 22, 2013:  AAP decides to form the government in Delhi

December 30, 2013:   AAP announces 20,000 litres free water for households with meters

December 31, 2013:  Power rates halved for those consuming up to 400 units of electricity. CAG ordered to audit power companies

February 14, 2014:  Kejriwal resigns over inability to pass the Delhi Jan Lokpal Bill. Claims it is difficult to take decisions with the Congress

February 15, 2015:  Forms government in Delhi by winning a whopping majority of 67 of 70 seats

March 28, 2015:  Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan are expelled from the party

January 2016:  AAP announces that it will expand beyond Delhi and contest elections in Punjab and Goa

March 11, 2017:  Party wins 20 seats in Punjab but fails to open account in Goa

April 13, 2017:   AAP loses badly to the BJP-Akali candidate in the Rajouri Garden by-polls in Delhi

April 26, 2017:  AAP fares second after the BJP in the municipal elections 

August 28, 2017:  After a string of losses, the AAP finally reclaims the Bawana seat   

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