In
what can perk up the morale of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) as it prepares to jump
into the Lok Sabha fray, contributions to the party coffers dramatically
increased by 700% on Saturday, a day after Arvind Kejriwal quit as CM.
Reversing
the trend of slack growth, the party collected over Rs 27.78 lakh from 1,072
donors (at the time of filing this report) on Saturday — the highest in a
single day in February and the second highest this year after Rs 63 lakh on
January 23.
The
sudden boost is a far cry from the relatively modest collections by AAP between
February 7 and 13 that saw an average of just Rs 3 lakh to Rs 4 lakh a day. The
increase started from Friday after Kejriwal announced that he was resigning.
Till noon that day, the party had received less than Rs 1 lakh from 93 donors.
Suddenly online collections surged to Rs 11.74 lakh, thanks to 593 donors.
Earlier,
AAP had consistently registered high collections between January 1-3 when they
received Rs 41 lakh, Rs 49 lakh and Rs 42 lakh respectively when the party had
started a fund-raising campaign, seeking donations of Rs 2014 per person to
build a corpus for campaigning in the Lok Sabha polls. Over 2,000 people
bolstered the AAP coffers daily.
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