AAP leaders attend a meeting to analyse the results of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. (Photo ANI)
The AAP won fewer seats than expected in the recently concluded Indian Lok Sabha elections, which party leaders said contributed to the BJP’s decline in seats in the Lower House. The leaders’ assessment was made at a meeting here to analyse the election results and plan the AAP’s future strategy.
AAP national general secretary (organisation) and Rajya Sabha member Sandeep Pathak, speaking at a meeting here on Thursday, said the party had fought the general elections under very adverse circumstances.
“We were moving forward with two goals. The first was to defeat the Modi government and the second was to win maximum seats for AAP. Today, the seats lost by the BJP have been laid the foundation for them at Ramlila Maidan through your struggle,” Pathak said at the meeting which was also attended by party volunteers.
He said the AAP had laid the “foundation stone” for the BJP’s downfall.
“The true character of an organisation or an individual is revealed only in difficult situations. We fought the elections hard and though we lost seats we have performed admirably. We may not win today but we are sure of victory tomorrow. Elections in Haryana and Delhi and by-elections in Punjab are coming up. We will once again come together to fight and win,” he said.
Senior AAP leader and Congress leader Sanjay Singh said the party cannot win a majority in the Lok Sabha on its own despite the “entire system” being in favour of the BJP.
“These are the most difficult times for the party. Currently, our party president Arvind Kejriwal, former education minister Manish Sisodia and former health minister Satyendar Jain are in jail. I was also in jail for six months. Here, even someone with only one MP has become a minister. We have 13 MPs. If we wanted to make a deal, we would have done so,” Sanjay Singh said.
“But AAP emerged from the womb of a movement. We came to politics to be leaders, not to be dealers. We came to work for the people. We will fight till we defeat the people. The Prime Minister arrogantly raised the slogan of over 400 seats but he managed to get only 240. Meanwhile, the entire media, the Election Commission, the police, the central bank, the education ministry, the income tax department and all organisations were in support of Modi. Despite this, the people did not even give him an absolute majority,” he added.
In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the AAP finished unopposed in Delhi and won three out of 13 seats in Punjab, where it is in power. The party lost all other seats.
