MCD Elections: AAP calls for minimum donation of Rs 272, says it stands for 'transparent funding'

Less than a week before the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has appealed citizens to donate money to the party with a minimum amount of Rs 270 for a 'corruption free' government.

"AAP believes in Transparent Funding, it runs on your money. #Donate2AAP - Rs 272 - Rs 2720 - Rs 27200  or Rs 272 MCD Candidates," said the party in a twitter post.

AAP believes in Transparent Funding, it runs on your money.#Donate2AAP
₹272
₹2720
₹27200
For 272 MCD Candidateshttps://t.co/5r5eR3wiVu pic.twitter.com/Z6WxfF3yUO

— AAP (@AamAadmiParty) April 18, 2017

The MCD elections will be a test for AAP and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal after the humiliating defeat in the recently concluded Punjab and Goa elections.

Kejriwal has appealed to people to give AAP a similar mandate in the upcoming MCD polls as it had got in the 2015 Assembly polls. He has also claimed that he will make Delhi look like London if voted to power in the upcoming municipal polls.

Several people who donated Rs 272 and Rs 2,720 to the party also took to the micro-blogging site to share pictures of a receipt consisting their name, amount donated, date and time of donation and the receipt number.

#Donate2AAP pic.twitter.com/WrWDNXYOBz

— Ansuman Pattanaik (@ansuman2010) April 18, 2017

स्वच्छ और सुन्दर दिल्ली के लिए#Donate2AAP @aartic02 @HasanSafin @AamAadmiParty pic.twitter.com/oxFAraAm8I

— Shashank Gohill (@SGohill) April 18, 2017

My small contribute to @AamAadmiParty because always believed only one @AamAadmiParty @msisodia @ArvindKejriwal #Donate2AAP pic.twitter.com/iTVLkXEEb0

— Md Tufail Alam (@mdtufailalam312) April 18, 2017

However, several Twitterati also took potshots at Kejriwal. 

Why #Donate2AAP?

To pay to Ram Jethmalani.
To pay for Rs 16000 Thali.
To switch to Paper from EVMs like from Plane to Bicycle.

— Bhaskar Singh (@bhaskar090981) April 18, 2017

#Donate2AAP for:

Paying their chai-samosa bill
Making ration cards
Throwing money on ads
Paying lawyer's fees
Kejri's treatment in B'lore

— Ritika Jha (@RitikaSpeaks) April 18, 2017

#Donate2AAP to see your hard earned money going down MCD's drain in the form of lost deposits, chai samosas and vipasna

— KK Pannala (@kkpannala) April 18, 2017

On Monday, asserting that his government has done a remarkable job in every field. He said even ex-CM Sheila Dikshit's 15-year rule cannot match the work done by his government in its two years so far.

Delhi has 70 Assembly seats and before the delimitation, every constituency had four wards, but, now it ranges from 3- 7. The erstwhile unified Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) was trifurcated in 2012 into North, South and East Municipal Corporations.