Landslide win for AAP
Wednesday, 11/02/2015
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Party leader Arvind Kejriwal and congratulated him on his thumping victory in Delhi and assured him of all support from the Centre for development of the national capital.
New Delhi : Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) under the leadership of Arvind Kejriwal gained a landslide victory in the National Capital on Tuesday, winning in 67 out of 70 Assembly constituencies. Amit Shah’s strategic planning and the ‘Modi wave’ could deliver a mere three seats for the BJP. AAP’s campaign strategy on ground levels, 70-point manifesto for the benefit of every one and the party’s campaign music theme ‘5 saal Kejriwal’ composed by Vishal Dadlani also hailed the sweep in Delhi.
AAP understood the people’s nerve pretty early and strategised accordingly. The volunteers went door-to-door and strengthened the party’s hold. Way before any other party jumped into poll mode, AAP started demanding the BJP declare its CM candidate. It even compared senior BJP leaders in the Delhi unit which forced the people to build the opinion that Kejriwal is a better CM candidate while BJP did nothing in this regard.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi called up Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal and congratulated him on his thumping victory in Delhi and assured him of all support from the Centre for development of the national capital.
Halting the Modi juggernaut, theAam Aadmi Party (AAP) scored a landslide victory in the Delhi Assembly election, decimating Congress which drew a blank. In an election that was billed by the opposition as a referendum on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the AAP tornado threw veterans of both BJP and Congress into the electoral dustbin in their traditional bastions. BJP leaders accepted the defeat as a “setback” but dismissed suggestions that it was a vote against the Modi government’s performance.
The AAP’s feat was rarely achieved in any state in the past. Only once in 1989, the Sikkim Sangram Parishad had won all the 32 seats in the Assembly. 46-year-old-former Revenue Service official, Arvind Kejriwal, who spearheaded the party’s victory march, was later elected leader of the AAP Legislature Party after which he staked claim to form government.
Lt Governor Najeeb Jung conveyed to Kejriwal that he will send a report to the President, a formality enabling government formation. Kejriwal won the prestigious New Delhi seat by a margin of over 31,500 votes defeating the nearest BJP rival Nupur Sharma, a political novice. Former Minister and Congress veteran Kiran Walia came a poor third with 4,700 votes and lost her deposit.
The BJP gamble of bringing in rank outsider Kiran Bedi, a former IPS officer and an erstwhile associate of Kejriwal in the anti-corruption movement, backfired hugely.
Bedi seeks forgiveness
New Delhi: A crestfallen BJP chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi, who herself suffered a shocking defeat from party’s traditional bastion Krishna Nagar, on Tuesday sought forgiveness from the party and workers for not living up to their expectations.
“I got all the respect and confidence of the top leaders including Narendra Modi and Amit Shah as well as ordinary party workers. But I ask for their forgiveness as I failed to carry that confidence and responsibility,” Bedi said.
“This is the first time I felt like this in my entire career as a police officer. I have never had to face such a situation,” she added. Denying that the election result was a referendum on Modi government, she said, “The PM was not the chief ministerial candidate.”
