Lok Sabha elections 2024: A wake-up call for Aam Aadmi Party
Aam Aadmi Party, especially with the Delhi assembly election due to be held next year. With the party drawing a blank in Delhi and its top two founding leaders Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia in jail, it has its task cut out to review and refine its political strategy and poll pitch.
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The AAP forged an alliance with Congress in Delhi and fought on four of the seven parliamentary seats. While the party increased its vote share to 24.14% in 2024 from 18.2% in 2019, it did not win any seat. Its vote share increased at the cost of the BJP, which saw a decline in vote share to 54.34% from 18.2% in 2019. The AAP fought a highly localised campaign, making Kejriwal’s arrest and performance of Delhi government its central poll plank. It gave the slogan, “Jail ka jawab vote se” (reply to jail with a vote), as the theme to get the sympathy vote. The results suggest it was not enough to reverse the results of the 2019 polls, with the BJP managing to retain all seven seats in Delhi that it had won in the previous election.
At the same time, the AAP-Congress alliance appeared to lack the necessary chemistry in most constituencies to be able to transfer votes between the two parties.
In Punjab, the AAP increased its tally threefold from the 2019 polls to three seats, with Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer winning from Sangrur, Malwinder Singh Kang from Anandpur Sahib and Raj Kumar
