Former NSUI member Alka Lamba broke her 10-year-long association with the Congress to join the AAP in December last year. Lamba had joined NSUI in 1994 and won the DUSU election for the post of president in 1995.  She was appointed as the general secretary of the All India Mahila Congress in 2002. One year later, she unsuccessfully contested the Delhi Assembly polls from Moti Nagar constituency against BJP leader Madan Lal Khurana.