Need to get back to work and pull ourselves up, says Arvind Kejriwal after MCD debacle

The note from the Delhi Chief Minister came after Aam Aadmi Party lost badly to the Bharatiya Janata Party in MCD elections.

By: News Desk |
April 29, 2017 8:50 am

After Aam Aadmi Party’s poor performance in the recent MCD Elections, party chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal accepted that the party had made mistakes and it is time to introspect. “Yes we made mistakes, but we will introspect and course correct. Time to go back to the drawing board,” Kejriwal said in a note to party workers and volunteers.

“To not evolve would be silly. We owe that to voters and volunteers. We owe to that ourselves. Need is action and not excuses,” he added. His response came at a time when the party is in turmoil after losing the civic polls.

Since April 26, party members have quit from their posts, former party members have penned tirades and still other party members have chastised the top leadership+ for not leading from the front.

On April 27, Kejriwal chaired a meeting of all legislators at his residence, after news broke that AAP’s Punjab unit in-charge Sanjay Singh and organisation-building head Durgesh Pathak resigned from their respective posts.

AAP came in second behind the BJP, after Wednesday’s counting of Sunday’s civic polls vote. It won a mere 48 of 270 seats. By comparison, the BJP won a whopping 181 seats.

Following the poll debacle, union minister M Venkaiah Naidu took a dig at Kejriwal and said, ““Kejriwal is not getting the mood of the nation. His mandate was to be in Delhi, he became over ambitious and people in Delhi punished him. His confrontation with the Centre, personal allegations against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, negative politics etc has been rejected by the people.”