
After Punjab and Gujarat bypoll win, Kejriwal responds to Rajya Sabha rumours, asks Congress employees to hitch AAP
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) received the Visavadar (Gujarat) and Ludhiana West (Punjab) meeting seats.
Former Delhi chief minister and AAP nationwide convener Arvind Kejriwal throughout a press convention.(PTI)
“I am not going to the Rajya Sabha. The party’s Political Affairs Committee will decide who will go to the Rajya Sabha,” he stated at a press convention.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) received the Visavadar (Gujarat) and Ludhiana West (Punjab) meeting seats.
“In the February elections, we won the Visavadar seat, but our MLA left the party and joined the BJP… But today, we have won both the seats (including Ludhiana West) with a double margin. We won Ludhiana West as well, and it shows that people are happy with our work… It is said that it’s always the ruling party that wins the by-elections, but in Gujarat it is the BJP which is in power and it has also hold on the administration and machinery; despite that if the people have given us votes and we won by a double margin, it shows that people are fed up with the BJP,” he added.
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Arvind Kejriwal attacked each the Congress and the BJP, claiming they’ve a comfy relationship with the BJP. “I urge the Congress workers to leave the party, join us; only AAP is fighting against the BJP,” he added.
“In Gujarat, there is a direct fight between BJP, AAP. Congress is the BJP’s puppet in ensuring their victory,” he added.
AAP’s sitting MP, Sanjeev Arora, received the Ludhiana West bypolls in Punjab. Arora should resign from the Rajya Sabha.
At a press convention, Kejriwal was requested whom the celebration will nominate in Arora’s place.
Opposition events have claimed that celebration supremo Kejriwal would enter the Upper House in Arora’s place.
Bypoll outcomes
AAP’s Gopal Italia received from Gujarat’s Visavadar meeting constituency. The Congress-led UDF wrested Nilambur from the ruling LDF in Kerala. The ruling BJP in Gujarat retained the Kadi seat, whereas the Trinamool Congress was main within the Kaliganj meeting seat in West Bengal’s Nadia district.
The bypolls within the 5 constituencies have been held on June 19.
With inputs from PTI, ANI
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