The Aam Aadmi Party announced on Friday that it will contest the upcoming Legislative Assembly elections which will be held later this year. They also claimed that the Maharashtra government had failed on all fronts.

Durgesh Pathak, state in-charge of AAP, Maharashtra, said, "Despite the electorate voting for change in the previous elections, the present Devendra Fadnavis-led BJP-Shiv Sena government has been a colossal failure- on all fronts. Maharashtra, once known to be to a progressive state, is today plagued with large-scale drought, floods, farmer suicides, agrarian distress, rising unemployment, failing law and order, rising crime, widespread corruption, bureaucratic inertia, lack of service delivery, economic slowdown and the near-collapse of public education."