After the Lok Sabha election results, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has convened a meeting of all Delhi MLAs today.
The meeting is scheduled to take place at the Chief Minister’s residence at 5 p.m. in the national capital to discuss the Lok Sabha election results, as per sources.
Senior AAP leaders, including Atishi, Sanjay Singh, Gopal Rai, and Sandeep Pathak, will participate in the meeting.
In the Lok Sabha polls, the AAP, in alliance with the INDIA bloc, secured three seats in Punjab, a slight improvement from its 2019 performance when it won only one seat. However, the party did not win any seats in the national capital.
The party’s vote share was 1.11%.
On Wednesday, the INDIA bloc held a meeting at Congress Chief Mallikarjun Kharge’s residence in Delhi.
Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, Congress leader KC Venugopal, Kalpana Soren (JMM MLA and wife of former Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren), and Revolutionary Socialist Party leader NK Premachandran attended the meeting.
AAP MP Raghav Chadha, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury, NCP (SCP) chief Sharad Pawar, Supriya Sule, Dipankar Bhattacharya, and Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin were also present.
After the meeting, Congress President Kharge thanked the people for their support and stated that the bloc would continue to oppose the BJP’s fascist rule under PM Modi.
Kharge stated in a press conference after the meeting, “The constituents of the INDIA bloc express gratitude to the people of India for the overwhelming support received by our alliance. The people’s mandate has provided a strong response to the BJP and their politics of hate and corruption. This mandate is in defense of the Constitution of India, against inflation, unemployment, crony capitalism, and to uphold democracy. The INDIA bloc will continue to oppose the fascist rule of the BJP under Modi.”
Indian Union Muslim League general secretary PK Kunhalikutty, while dismissing the possibility of forming a government by the opposition bloc, said they would wait for the “right time.”
According to the Election Commission of India, the BJP won 240 seats, significantly lower than its 2019 total of 303. The Congress, however, saw a substantial increase, winning 99 seats.