Expansion beyond Capital, choosing an Opposition leader: What’s next on AAP agenda after Delhi defeat

After the meeting, Sisodia said that during the discussion, Kejriwal underlined the value of AAP candidates continuing to marque their beingness felt connected the crushed among people.

“Even though BJP candidates person won, AAP’s candidates indispensable enactment connected with the people, code their concerns, and guarantee that nationalist work remains a priority… Their acquisition volition besides play a important relation successful the party’s enlargement crossed the country, with responsibilities extending beyond Delhi,” helium said.

Attributing the nonaccomplishment to a hostile “electoral environment”, Sisodia said, “Despite an electoral situation wherever authorities machinery, money, and liquor were openly misused, and predetermination rules were blatantly violated, these candidates remained steadfast and fought courageously.”

Kejriwal, according to a connection from AAP, told the MLAs to enactment for the radical and those who mislaid to enactment connected with the people, code their concerns, and proceed nationalist service.

Addressing reporters aft the meeting, outgoing Chief Minister and Kalkaji MLA Atishi said the enactment volition play the relation of a constructive Opposition and guarantee that the BJP delivers connected its promises. “The AAP volition play the relation of a constructive Opposition and guarantee that the BJP pays Rs 2,500 per period to women by March 8 arsenic was promised by it, provides 300 units of escaped electricity, and continues different facilities for the people,” she said.

In his code successful the run-up to the elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised that the magnitude would scope women by March 8. In its manifesto, the enactment had promised that up to 300 units of energy could beryllium provided to radical escaped of outgo nether the Centre’s star powerfulness scheme, wherever radical tin instal star panels connected rooftops and merchantability unutilised powerfulness to the grid.

The AAP present has 2 large decisions up of it – choosing a person of the Opposition and reviewing the responsibilities leaders person been fixed successful the authorities unit. Among the leaders that person won, Gopal Rai is the senior-most and a founding subordinate of the party. He is the convenor of the authorities unit. His name, sources said, is being considered for the person of the opposition. Atishi is besides a candidate.

The party, sources said, was besides considering the enactment of appointing a Dalit person arsenic the LoP. Eight retired of 22 seats that AAP won came from reserved constituencies.

Another person said that elder leaders who mislaid this election, specified arsenic Sisodia, Saurabh Bharadwaj, Satyendar Jain, and Somnath Bharti volition besides beryllium asked to enarthrosis bigger responsibilities successful the party.

Atishi, meanwhile, handed implicit her resignation to Lt Governor V K Saxena connected Sunday.

The BJP’s Delhi portion president Virendra Sachdeva sought an assignment from Saxena “at an aboriginal date”.