New Delhi: After MCD defeat and various resignations from the party leaders, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal called for an urgent meet at his residence in New Delhi.
Taking responsibility for the defeat, lawmaker Alka Lamba told NDTV, “I take personal responsibility for the party’s defeat in all three wards in my constituency and offer to resign from all party posts and as a lawmaker.”
Five months after joining the AAP, Poonam Jha Azad, wife of suspended BJP MP Kirti Jha Azad, switched over to the Congress on April 11. Azad, who took on former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit from Gole Market in the 2003 Assembly polls, termed her joining the Congress as “homecoming.”
On Thursday, AAP’s Punjab party in-charge Sanjay Singh took to Twitter to announce organisation-building head Durgesh Pathak and his own resignation.
AAP MP Bhagwat Mann slammed the party leadership, and said, not naming a chief ministerial candidate cost the party heavily during the Punjab elections.
Contrary to AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal’s stand, Mann said there was no use in finding fault with the electronic voting machines (EVMs).
He also slammed the party leadership for “behaving like a ‘mohalla’ (local) cricket team,” and said AAP had committed a “historic blunder” in Punjab with regard to the overall electoral strategy.
The Bharatiya Janata Party swept Delhi’s civic polls on Wednesday, bagging an unprecedented 181 of the 270 municipal wards. With AAP managing to win just 48 seats, and Congress trailing at the third position with 30 seats, the BJP’s victory margin is the highest ever in Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) polls.
