Chandigarh, Oct 8 (PTI) The Haryana Meeting ballot end result has come as a blow to the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Occasion (AAP), which hoped to make a mark within the elections.
The celebration drew a clean thus far with its senior vice chairman of the state unit Anurag Dhanda is amongst these set to undergo an enormous defeat. Dhanda, who contested from the Kalayat seat within the Kaithal district, was on the seventh place with Congress’ Vikas Saharan main by a margin of 13,419 votes.
No AAP nominee was within the contest in any of the 90 meeting seats, as per the ECI knowledge.
AAP, which has governments in Delhi and Punjab, didn’t have any electoral success within the Lok Sabha polls earlier this 12 months.
AAP contested the meeting polls solo after talks with the Congress for stitching an alliance couldn’t fructify.
Throughout his ballot campaigns, celebration nationwide convener Arvind Kejriwal stated that had he been launched from jail three to 4 months again, his celebration would have fashioned its authorities within the state after the polls.
“No matter authorities is fashioned in Haryana, it is going to be fashioned with the help of the Aam Aadmi Occasion,” he claimed.
Kejriwal was launched from Tihar jail on September 13 after he was granted bail by the Supreme Courtroom within the CBI case linked to the alleged excise coverage rip-off. He remained in jail for 5 months.
Within the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the Kejriwal-led outfit, which was a part of the INDIA bloc, contested in alliance with the Congress from the Kurukshetra parliamentary constituency. However its nomine Sushil Gupta, the celebration’s state unit president and its ‘greatest guess’, misplaced to BJP’s Naveen Jindal by round 29,000 votes.
In Haryana the place caste equations play a key position within the electoral success of a political celebration, AAP requested folks to offer it an opportunity within the meeting polls as they’ve elected all main political events one after the other.
The celebration projected Kejriwal as ‘Haryana ka laal’ (son of Haryana) and sought votes in his title.
The celebration had introduced a number of “ensures”, together with free and round the clock electrical energy for home customers, transformation of presidency colleges and hospitals, free and good training, organising of ‘mohalla’ clinics, and Rs 1,000 to ladies each month.
Although AAP was attempting its luck within the 2024 meeting polls, its previous ballot report reveals its dismal efficiency in Haryana.
Within the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, it had unsuccessfully contested all the ten parliamentary seats within the state.
Within the 2019 parliamentary polls, AAP joined palms with the Jannayak Janta Occasion and fielded candidates from three seats — Faridabad, Karnal and Ambala — they usually too misplaced.
In 2019 meeting polls, AAP contested 46 meeting seats and didn’t register victory.
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