By PTI
NEW DELHI: With its landslide victory in Punjab meeting polls, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has achieved a significant milestone in its journey thus far and emerged as a substitute within the nationwide politics.
The celebration received 92 seats in Punjab, decimating its closest rival Congress to type its authorities within the state with a three-fourth majority within the 117-member legislative meeting.
The robust AAP wave in Punjab noticed many bigwigs trailing and dropping — together with Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief Sukhbir Singh Badal and Congress chief and Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi from each the seats he contested, Chamkaur Sahib and Bhadaur, former chief minister Amarinder Singh who left the Congress to hitch fingers with the BJP, and Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu.
The celebration additionally gained some toe maintain in Goa successful two seats within the 40-member state legislative meeting, although it couldn’t open its account in Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.
The AAP had contested on all seats in Punjab, Goa, Uttarkhand and Uttar Pradesh meeting polls, searching for to develop its base past Delhi and obtain its acknowledged ambition to turn out to be a dominant pressure in nationwide politics.
Buoyed by its efficiency in Punjab meeting polls, the celebration is now aiming to develop its base in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh.
The celebration will contest the meeting elections in these two states to beheld subsequent 12 months.
With give attention to Gujarat, celebration plans to carry Punjab victory march in BJP-ruled Gujarat, AAP sources stated.
Born out of 2011 anti-corruption motion led by Anna Hazare, the celebration seems to play a significant position within the nationwide politics following its emphatic victory in Punjab meeting polls, with the AAP leaders projecting the celebration’s nationwide convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal as an alternative choice to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The political observers feels that the meteoric rise of the AAP inside a decade of its formation will reinforce its standing as a challenger to the Congress and the BJP in coming months, supplied it lives as much as the expectations of individuals of Punjab, present a clear authorities within the state, and fulfil the guarantees that it made throughout elections.
The celebration’s assist to the farmers’ agitation towards three-farm legal guidelines final 12 months, its Delhi mannequin of governance and inner feud in Congress in Punjab led to its victory in Punjab, in line with the ballot analysts.
“With its victory in Punjab, the AAP has become the only regional party and third party in the country which will have its government in two states. Other two are the BJP and the Congress,” famous political analyst and co-director of Lokniti-CSDS Sanjay Kumar instructed PTI when requested for his feedback.
The AAP will turn out to be seen to the voters as a substitute with the celebration additionally gaining a toehold in Goa, he stated.
“In coming days, party will start seeing the party as an alternative if it provides a clean government in Punjab and make a visible impact with its work as it did in Delhi,” he added.
The individuals of Punjab have given their mandate to AAP and voted for change, wanting on the work executed by its authorities in Delhi, notably in schooling and healthcare sectors, Kumar stated.
“While the Congress couldn’t achieve religion of the individuals attributable to inner feud within the celebration, Akalis (SAD) additionally couldn’t appeal to the electors as they’d not executed something particular throughout its regime in previous.
In such a scenario, the AAP was seen as a substitute and folks determined to offer it an opportunity,” he added.
Kejriwal and others shaped the AAP in 2012, making an exit from the 2011 anti-corruption motion following variations with Anna Hazare and made its debut in electoral politics successful 28 out of 70 seats in Delhi Assembly, and shaped its authorities below Chief Minister Kejriwal with outdoors assist of the Congress in December 2013.
After failing to go the Jan Lokpal Bill attributable to lack of numbers within the Delhi Assembly, Kejriwal resigned as chief minister in February 2014 to hunt a recent and full mandate.
Before the re-election in Delhi could possibly be held, the AAP contested the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and received 4 seats — all from Punjab.
The celebration recorded a landslide victory in 2015 Delhi meeting polls successful 67 out of a complete 70 seats, with a file vote share of 54 per cent and shaped its authorities.
The AAP created a historical past as soon as once more by successful 62 out of 70 seats in 2020 Delhi meeting polls.