NEW DELHI: Tuesday’s ballot final result was a major loss for AAP in Haryana, because it not solely did not open its account within the state but in addition ended up with a vote share of lower than 2%.
This was regardless of nationwide convener Arvind Kejriwal, who hails from Siwani in Bhiwani district, main over a dozen roadshows and outreach programmes on his residence turf after being launched on bail and searching for votes for ‘Haryana ka Lal’ (son of the soil).
Kejriwal’s name to vote for him if he was trustworthy and AAP’s emotive marketing campaign did not stir voters. AAP carried out a high-voltage marketing campaign, with all its leaders — from Manish Sisodia to MPs Sanjay Singh and Raghav Chadha, together with Kejriwal — hitting the path to accentuate their assaults on BJP. They targeted on points starting from corruption and misuse of central businesses to unemployment, however their efforts did not resonate with voters.
Additionally AAP’s slew of “ensures” like free electrical energy as much as a sure variety of models, high quality schooling, free healthcare for all together with mohalla clinics and options to handle unemployment didn’t have influence on individuals’s mindset. Besides AAP candidate Adarsh Pal Singh who ended up third with 43,813 votes in Jagadhri constituency all its 87 candidates are set to forfeit their safety deposit.
After alliance talks with Congress failed, AAP determined to contest 88 out of 90 seats in Haryana exuding confidence that it is going to be “key participant”. In his campaigns, Kejriwal had additionally asserted that no get together can type govt in Haryana with out AAP’s assist.
However the outcomes inform one other story. AAP bought 2.48 lakh (1.8% ). AAP’s vote share was 0.5% in 2019 when it had contested 46 seats. Within the Lok Sabha polls in Could, AAP contested from Haryana in alliance with Congress however did not win the Kurukshetra seat from the place it fielded its state unit chief Sushil Kumar Gupta. The get together managed a vote share of three.9%.
Provided that Congress snubbed AAP when it sought to ally with it in Haryana after quite a few rounds of talks on seat-sharing, the consequence day noticed AAP regardless of its poor efficiency ship out a powerful message to Congress with Kejriwal at a gathering along with his get together’s municipal councillors in Delhi on how the outcomes present that nobody ought to be over-confident.
With out naming anybody, Kejriwal mentioned, “The (Delhi meeting) elections are across the nook. The very first thing to remember is to not take any election evenly. At present’s election outcomes present that one ought to by no means be overconfident.”
Each Congress and AAP although a part of the INDIA alliance nationally are opponents in Delhi. With the Congress get together not successful in neighbouring Haryana, AAP will no longer need to deal with the narrative of a resurgent Congress that may defeat BJP with out INDIA allies.
In the meantime, the AAP’s Haryana management too harped on Congress get together’s conceitedness and overconfidence affecting the end result. Occasion’s state president Sushil Gupta claimed that in a extremely polarised election the place the jat and non-jat votes performed a decisive position and contributed to the BJP getting an edge, an alliance between Congress and AAP would have helped consolidate votes. The outcomes present that the voteshare of each BJP and Congress is sort of comparable at 39.94% and 39.09% respectively.
In the meantime, whilst AAP drew a clean in Haryana, the get together opened its account in Jammu and Kashmir the place its candidate Mehraj Malik received from Doda meeting constituency.
This takes AAP’s presence in legislatures to 5 states. In addition to being the ruling get together in Delhi and Punjab, AAP has 5 MLAs in Gujarat and a couple of in Goa. Congratulating Malik over video name, Kejriwal accepted his invitation to take part in a programme at Doda on October 10.
Malik, a District Growth Council (DDC) member, polled 23,228 votes towards BJP’s Gajay Singh Rana’s 18,690 votes in Doda.
“Many congratulations on the grand victory of AAP candidate from Doda, Mehraj Malik towards the BJP. You fought the election very nicely. Congratulations to the complete get together for having an MLA within the fifth state,” Kejriwal mentioned in a Hindi publish on X.
AAP contested seven seats out of 90 in J&Okay. After information of Malik’s win got here, AAP headquarters in Delhi noticed get together leaders and staff have fun distributing sweets and dancing to drum beats.
