Delhi Minister Gopal Rai on Thursday clarified that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will contest the 2025 Delhi assembly election “alone”. AAP has NOT walked out of the INDIA alliance, Gopal Rai said, adding that it was already known that there will be no alliance for the Vidhan Sabha elections.
“The INDIA bloc was only for contesting the Lok Sabha polls. Several parties fought elections together and AAP was also a part of it. As of now, there is no alliance for the Delhi Assembly polls,” the AAP leader said.
“This is clear from the very first day that the INDIA alliance was formed for Lok Sabha elections. As far as Vidhan Sabha is concerned, no alliance has been formed. AAP will fight elections with its full strength,” he added.
A meeting of AAP MLAs and top leaders took place on Thursday at Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence with a focus on Lok Sabha election results and future strategy.
Gopal Rai noted that the people of Delhi vote for different parties in the Assembly and Lok Sabha elections, this time too they repeated the old pattern.
The AAP and Congress contested as allies of the INDIA bloc in all seven Lok Sabha seats of Delhi. While AAP contested four seats, Congress fought from three seats, but the BJP won all seven seats in the national capital.
Meanwhile, the AAP had contested the Lok Sabha elections in elections in Punjab and Chandigarh solo. The party won 3 out of 13 Lok Sabha seats in Punjab.
Having contested a total of 22 seats across Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat and Assam in the 2024 general elections, AAP ended up only winning three seats from Punjab.
