NEW DELHI: “Arvind Kejriwal “shouldn’t (have) attack(ed) PM” on surgical strike and he should not demand proof on it,” said AAP’s soft-spoken but high-profile leader and resident poet Kumar Vishwas, in an interview with a TV channel.
Other reasons for the party’s loss are a “lack of” intra-party democracy and a “trust deficit” with voters, the prominent AAP leader said.
Kejriwal has very openly been at loggerheads with Prime Minister Narendra Modi since the former became Delhi chief minister in 2015. The Delhi CM in fact extended that hostility even to the extent of asking the Centre for “proof” that surgical strikes took place on terrorist camps in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir last September.
AAP is in turmoil following its disastrous showing in Sunday’s Delhi civic polls, which in turn came on top of exceedingly poor performances in the recent Punjab and Goa Assembly elections.
Kejriwal and other AAP leaders have been putting the blame squarely on Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), which they say were “tampered with”.
