Chandigarh, March 10 : All set to achieve a historic election win in Punjab, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has emerged as a national force as a “natural and national replacement” of the Congress, its leader Raghav Chadha declared on Thursday. Addressing party activists as counting of votes in assembly elections indicated a sweeping victory, he said the AAP had emerged as a national force because of what he called the “Kejriwal model of governance”. “From Kanyakumari to Kashmir and from Assam to Gujarat, people all over the country are looking towards the Kejriwal model of governance,” he said. “The AAP has emerged as the natural and national replacement to Congress,” he added to cheers. Chadha, the national spokesperson of the party and an MLA in Delhi, said the negative campaign which all other parties ran against the AAP had been rejected. “They even called Kejriwal a terrorist. But the people of Punjab have proved that he is not ‘an atankwadi but a shikshawadi’,” he said. AO MR