In a serious growth, Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday (February 10) introduced that his get together would contest all 13 Lok Sabha seats in Punjab in the upcoming normal elections. Kejriwal’s announcement comes as a serious blow to the Opposition’s I.N.D.I.A bloc which is aiming to defeat the BJP on the Centre. Congress and AAP are part of the Opposition’s bloc. “AAP will announce candidates for all 13 Lok Sabha seats in Punjab and 1 in Chandigarh in 10-15 days,” Kejriwal stated.
What did Kejriwal say?
Reminding the folks of the historic victory the get together achieved in Punjab in the final Assembly elections, Kejriwal urged the folks to vote for the get together in the Lok Sabha elections as nicely.
“Two years back, you gave us blessings. You gave 92 out of 117 seats to us (in Assembly elections), you created history in Punjab. I have come to you with folded hands, asking for one more blessing. Lok Sabha elections will be held in two months. For Lok Sabha elections, Punjab has 13 seats and one from Chandigarh – a total of 14 seats. In the next 10-15 days, AAP will declare its candidates in all of these 14 seats. You have to make AAP sweep all these 14 seats with majority,” he added.
Bhagwant Mann reiterates Kejriwal’s comment
Reiterating that the AAP will win all seats in Punjab in Lok Sabha elections, state Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann stated that the get together will declare all candidates by the top of this month.
“By the end of this month, we will declare all our 13 candidates from Punjab and one from Chandigarh (for 2024 Lok Sabha polls). We are confident that it will be 14-0 – 13 in Punjab and one in Chandigarh,” he stated.
I.N.D.I.A bloc seat-sharing bother
The Opposition’s bloc, consisting of over 25 events, have stumbled to the seat-sharing subject with a number of events expressing their grievance relating to the delay in formulating a technique to tackle the BJP.
BJP reacts
Reacting to Kejriwal’s announcement, BJP chief Shehzad Poonawalla stated that the construction of the I.N.D.I.A bloc is crumbling. He took a potshot at Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra being led by Rahul Gandhi and stated that it’s “more of bye bye yatra”.
“One more blow to INDI Alliance…Arvind Kejriwal has announced today that AAP will contest alone on 13 seats of Punjab and one seat of Chandigarh. It means INDI Alliance will not contest there, there won’t be an alliance there…The structure of the INDI Alliance is crumbling…No mission, no vision, only commission, only corruption, only confusion, only contradiction. Rahul Gandhi’s Nyay Yatra is strange. It is more of ‘bye bye yatra’ than Nyay Yatra. He should have taken out ‘INDI jodo yatra’ instead…” he stated.
