Delhiu2019s aam aadmi crushes BJP NEW DELHI: Arvind Kejriwal led the Aam Aadmi Party to a stupendous victory yet again in the Delhi Assembly polls, dealing a body blow to main rival B . P and completely flanking the Congress in a keenly watched battle in the midst of anti- CAA protest. AAP bagged . . of the . . seats, and B . P registered victory in only eight constituencies.
The u20ac u0090 - year- old bureaucrat- turned- politician almost replicated the AAPu2019s fairy- tale victory of . . u0090 u20ac by riding on his governmentu2019s development agenda, and in the process emerged as a key leader in the national political landscape.
The AAP recorded a total vote share of u20ac . . u20ac . per cent and the B . P . . . u20ac u0090 per cent.
Leaders cutting across party lines including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi ( Congress), Sharad Pawar ( NCP), Mamata Banerjee ( TMC), Naveen Patnaik ( B . D) and MK Stalin ( DMK) congratulated Kejriwal for the historic victory.
The AAPu2019s stupendous victory comes nearly eight months after it suffered a severe drubbing in the Lok Sabha polls in which the party drew a blank as the B . P won all the seven seats.
The victory also assumes significance as it came in the face of B . Pu2019s no holds barred attack against protesters opposing the Citizenship ( Amendement) Act as u201c supporters of Pakistanu201d during the bitterly fought campaign.
u201c It is the beginning of a new kind of politics today. This is a very auspicious message for the country and the politics of work can only take our country to the . u0090 st century,u201d said Kejriwal, who won from New Delhi seat with . . , . u20ac . votes, . u0090 . u0090 per cent of total votes polled in the constituency.
All AAP heavyweights including Manish Sisodia, Raghav Chadha and Atishi, Gopal Rai, Satyender . ain emerged victorious.
A gencies Delhiites reinstall Arvind Kejriwalu2019s AAP, smash the saffron partyu2019s hopes for a victory in the Assembly elections From being a political force that ruled the national capital for 15 years in a row, the Congress party stands eclipsed after the Delhi election results, failing to win for the second consecutive time even a seat and its vote share getting reduced to its lowest ever of 4.27 per cent.
Lack of a credible face, weak strategy and candidates led to the washout of the party in Delhi, where it was seen as a reluctant contestant that lacked the fighting spirit. As the results came in, criticism of the Congressu2019 Delhi unit started gaining traction and many leaders called for u201c actionu201d. u201c We are again decimated in Delhi... Inordinate delay in decision- making at the top, lack of strategy and unity at state level demotivated workers,u201d Congressu2019s Sharmishtha Mukherjee tweeted. Accepting the embarrassing defeat, Randeep Surjewala said, u201c Congress will recalibrate its policy and strategy and build a fresh leadership from the grassroots up.u201d BJPu2019s u001f rout u001f causes u001f cracks u001f in u001f party? The BJP has fought few state elections in recent times with such organisational firepower and ideological fervour as it did the Delhi polls, but this all came to nought as the party suffered a big loss, a defeat that continues its poor run in state elections since 2018.
The BJP failed to make much impact in constituencies where its leaders, including Anurag Thakur and Parvesh Verma, made controversial remarks during campaigns.
BJPu2019s Kapil Mishra, who lost from Model Town, hit out at his own party for the defeat. u201c BJP has lost the fifth state polls in a row. It means we have somewhere failed to connect with the people of Delhi,u201d he said. BJPu2019s Delhi unit chief Manoj Tiwari said, u201c We couldnu2019t perform well, we will evaluate this.
But I would like to tell our workers to not be disheartened...u201d u2018 POLITICS u001f OF u001f HATRED u001f REJECTEDu2019 u2018 The issue was about freebies.
Kejriwal will say from where the issue of development came into the elections? Freebies announced, especially during the last six months, in Delhi have had an impact on these electionsu2019 Kailash Vijayvargiya, BJP leader u2018 BJP is losing one election after another u2014 this has been an ongoing trend. It began in Maharashtra, then in Jharkhand and now in Delhi.
Everywhere the trend is very clear u2014 the people are rejecting BJP and its politics of hatredu2019 Mamata Banerjee, Bengal CM u2018 Politics should be done on the basis of work and development. It is better to avoid politics based on religion and allegations. It is a victory of all. The opposition parties have got an apt answeru2019 Harshita, Arvind Kejriwalu2019s daughter u2018 Dilliwalon, ghazab kar diya aapne. I love you... Itu2019s a victory of the people of Delhi who considered me their son... May god give us more strength to serve people of Delhiu2019 Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi chief minister Eclipsed u001f again u001e u001f Cong u001f vows u001f to u001f revive u001e u001f rebuild u2018 It was clear that people of Delhi had made up their minds about Arvind Kejriwal. They voted for him on the basis of his work. Itu2019s u2018 kaam ki rajneetiu2019 which has won over the politics of hatredu2019 Atishi, AAP leader 62 AAP 08 BJP 70 Total seats Manoj Tiwari. PIC/ PTI Rahul and Sonia Gandhi. PIC/ PTI
