Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) President Sharad Pawar with enactment MLA Rohit Pawar. (PTI Photo)
After the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) experienced a crushing decision successful the Delhi Assembly election, leaders from its INDIA bloc partners criticised the Congress and the AAP for their deficiency of unity during the polls. They said if some parties had contested unneurotic arsenic an alliance, they could person defeated the BJP. The BJP is poised to triumph 48 seats successful the 70-member Delhi Assembly, with the AAP being reduced to conscionable 22 seats. The Congress has not won immoderate seats.
Nationalist Congress Party (SP) MLA Rohit Pawar, successful a station connected X, congratulated the BJP for its occurrence but said the arrogance of the Congress and the AAP resulted successful the drubbing successful Delhi elections and had the parties contested together, the BJP would not person won adjacent 20 seats.
“My idiosyncratic feeling was that the authorities should person been formed nether the enactment of the AAP successful the Delhi elections. While warring against a superpower similar BJP, which is warring elections utilizing each due and inappropriate means, parties with akin ideologies needed to instrumentality a measurement backmost oregon two. But unfortunately, the parties successful the INDIA bloc did not enactment their egos aside. As a result, the BJP pulled disconnected an intolerable victory. All leaders warring successful the accepted mode should instrumentality enactment of this matter,” said Pawar.
— Rohit Pawar (@RRPSpeaks) February 8, 2025
He besides remarked that the Congress and the AAP appeared to run arsenic a “B team” for the BJP and questioned whether the INDIA bloc partners would yet larn a lesson. “In Delhi’s Jangpura, Manish Sisodia was defeated by 700 votes, portion Congress’s Suri got 7,350. In New Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal was defeated by astir 3,400 votes, portion the Congress’s Sandeep Dixit got much than 4,500 votes… The concern is akin successful much than 20 constituencies. The 2 parties did not coordinate with each other,” helium added.
Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut besides said if some parties had contested together, they would person so defeated BJP. Shiv Sena (UBT) announced its enactment for Arvind Kejriwal’s AAP during the Delhi Assembly elections. Shiv Sena (UBT) person Anil Desai said the enactment was supporting the AAP due to the fact that Kejriwal’s enactment had antecedently backed it during the Maharashtra Assembly elections.
Raut claimed that the AAP could not enactment freely successful Delhi due to the fact that the Lieutenant Governor held implicit power. “All important leaders were imprisoned, contributing to the AAP’s defeat. This is portion of a pattern, akin to what happened successful Maharashtra, to destruct the enactment that stands up to the BJP,” helium alleged.
Raut alleged irregularities successful the voters’ database successful Maharashtra, wherever the Mahayuti conjugation won importantly past November. He claimed a “Maharashtra pattern” was besides implemented successful the Delhi elections.