New Delhi: Hours after Delhi Chief Minister Atishi Marlena on Tuesday alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is attempting to manipulate the electoral process by getting the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supporters removed from electoral rolls, BJP attacked the AAP saying that such statements reflect their “clear apprehension of defeat.”
Ahead of the Delhi Assembly elections the battle between AAP and BJP has intensified with the saffron party blaming the former for doing nothing to solve the air pollution crisis and for indulging in corrupt practices, in reference to the scrapped excise policy.
Reacting to CM Atishi’s statement which blamed the BJP, Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva said, “Most members of the I.N.D.I. Alliance are disheartened and demoralised by their continuous electoral defeats” and added that, “Today, the Aam Aadmi Party, fearing a loss in the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections, has begun echoing similar rhetoric.”
Attacking the Congress and AAP, he further said that “first Congress and now AAP, have relied on fake duplicate voters and burqa voters to win in Delhi” and seeing the triumph
of BJP in Haryana, Maharashtra and
Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Rajasthan by-elections, the party is now questioning the “impartiality” of the Election Commission.
The Delhi Assembly election, scheduled for February 2025, is expected to be a critical contest for the BJP in the national capital.
Despite winning all the Lok Sabha seats in Delhi, the BJP has failed to see a victory in Delhi Assembly Elections yet.
In 2015 and 2020 Assembly Elections, the saffron party out of 70 seats bagged 3 and 8 seats respectively.
But the upcoming assembly elections are slightly different as the AAP witnessed huge ups and downs in the last 18-24 months in which the top leaders of the party including ex-CM Arvind Kejriwal, his deputy, Manish Sisodia and others faced prison and are now out on bail.