Through PTI
NEW DELHI: With its landslide victory in Punjab meeting polls, the Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP) has completed a significant milestone in its adventure up to now and emerged instead within the nationwide politics.
The birthday party received 92 seats in Punjab, decimating its closest rival Congress to shape its govt 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) leader Sukhbir Singh Badal and Congress chief and Leader Minister Charanjit Singh Channi from each the seats he contested, Chamkaur Sahib and Bhadaur, former leader minister Amarinder Singh who left the Congress to sign up for arms with the BJP, and Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu.
The birthday party additionally won some toe grasp in Goa successful two seats within the 40-member state legislative meeting, regardless that it will no longer open its account in Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.
The AAP had contested on all seats in Punjab, Goa, Uttarkhand and Uttar Pradesh meeting polls, looking for to enlarge its base past Delhi and reach its said ambition to turn into a dominant pressure in nationwide politics.
Buoyed through its efficiency in Punjab meeting polls, the birthday party is now aiming to enlarge its base in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh.
The birthday party will contest the meeting elections in those two states to beheld subsequent yr.
With focal point on Gujarat, birthday party plans to carry Punjab victory march in BJP-ruled Gujarat, AAP resources stated.
Born out of 2011 anti-corruption motion led through Anna Hazare, the birthday party seems to play a significant position within the nationwide politics following its emphatic victory in Punjab meeting polls, with the AAP leaders projecting the birthday party’s nationwide convenor and Delhi Leader Minister Arvind Kejriwal as an alternative choice to High Minister Narendra Modi.
The political observers feels that the meteoric upward push of the AAP inside a decade of its formation will support its standing as a challenger to the Congress and the BJP in coming months, equipped it lives as much as the expectancies of folks of Punjab, supply a blank govt within the state, and fulfil the guarantees that it made all the way through elections.
The birthday party’s enhance to the farmers’ agitation in opposition to three-farm rules closing yr, its Delhi type of governance and interior feud in Congress in Punjab ended in its victory in Punjab, in line with the ballot analysts.
“With its victory in Punjab, the AAP has turn into the one regional birthday party and 3rd birthday party within the nation which can have its govt in two states. Different 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 into visual to the citizens instead with the birthday party additionally gaining a toehold in Goa, he stated.
“In coming days, birthday party will get started seeing the birthday party instead if it supplies a blank govt in Punjab and make a visual have an effect on with its paintings because it did in Delhi,” he added.
The folk of Punjab have given their mandate to AAP and voted for alternate, having a look on the paintings performed through its govt in Delhi, in particular in training and healthcare sectors, Kumar stated.
“Whilst the Congress may no longer acquire religion of the folks because of interior feud within the birthday party, Akalis (SAD) additionally may no longer draw in the electors as that they had no longer performed anything else particular all the way through its regime in previous.
In this sort of state of affairs, the AAP was once noticed instead and folks determined to provide it a possibility,” he added.
Kejriwal and others shaped the AAP in 2012, making an go out 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 Meeting, and shaped its govt underneath Leader Minister Kejriwal with out of doors enhance of the Congress in December 2013.
After failing to move the Jan Lokpal Invoice because of loss of numbers within the Delhi Meeting, Kejriwal resigned as leader minister in February 2014 to hunt a contemporary and whole mandate.
Ahead of the re-election in Delhi might be held, the AAP contested the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and received 4 seats — all from Punjab.
The birthday party recorded a landslide victory in 2015 Delhi meeting polls successful 67 out of a complete 70 seats, with a document vote percentage of 54 in line with cent and shaped its govt.
The AAP created a historical past as soon as once more through successful 62 out of 70 seats in 2020 Delhi meeting polls.