AAP bags 3 seats in Punjab, loses Delhi seats to BJP
The Hindu
AAP wins three seats in Punjab, increases Parliament representation, fails to open account in Delhi in 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), having contested in 22 seats across Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat and Assam in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, managed to win three seats in Punjab, increasing its representation in Parliament from the sole seat it won in 2014 and 2019 elections. The party once again failed to open its account in Delhi and replicate the success it has seen at the State level in the National elections.
AAP national convenor and Delhi Chief Minister had been confident that things would go differently for the party this time around, given that this was the first polls it was facing as a ‘national party’.
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Keen to showcase its “kaam ki jajneeti“ (politics of work), the INDIA bloc member drew a hard bargain with the Congress not only for the 4-3 seat-sharing alliance in the national capital but also for the Bharuch seat in Gujarat where the Congress had to deny Faisal Patel, son of the late Congress stalwart Ahmed Patel, a ticket from his father’s former constituency.
In Punjab and Assam as well, AAP and the Congress fought individually and not as a part of the INDIA bloc. The AAP was confident that the INDIA bloc would come to power on June 4. Mr. Kejriwal took the liberty to announce “Kejriwal’s 10 guarantees” that would be implemented at the national level if the alliance came to power.
The AAP became a rallying point for the INDIA bloc after Mr. Kejriwal was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case that amplified its campaign pitch that democracy and the Constitution were under threat if the BJP came back to power.
Mr. Kejriwal, who emerged as a star campaigner not only for the AAP but for the INDIA bloc as well with his direct attacks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, however, could not change the electoral fortunes of his party on the national stage.
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