New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) office, functioning from a leased house in Bhopal, has been locked by the landlord after the party reportedly failed to pay rent for three months.
“All this happens when we work with honesty. Things will improve. We are honest. Right now, our party does not have funds. So we couldn’t do it,” Madhya Pradesh AAP joint secretary Ramakant Patel was quoted as saying by PTI. He pointed out that they managed the party affairs with local funds, and the financial situation of their workers was not stable. “I won’t know about the amount of office rent and the time since it has not been paid,” Patel added.
Taking to X, state BJP spokesperson Narendra Saluja said, “AAP’s MP office locked, next number is of Congress.”
In the 2023 Madhya Pradesh assembly elections, the AAP contested 66 seats but lost all of them. The party could secure only 0.53% of the vote in the state, even lower than NOTA, which received 0.98%.
In the 2022 civic elections, the Arvind Kejriwal-led party made a remarkable debut by bagging the post of mayor in Singrauli. AAP’s Rani Agrawal won against Bharatiya Janata Party’s Chandra Prakash Vishwakarma and Congress candidate Arvind Chandel.
BJP routs AAP in Delhi assembly elections
In February, the BJP romped to victory against AAP in Delhi assembly polls. The BJP bagged 48 out of 70 seats in the elections.
Senior AAP leaders including its national convenor and former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, former Deputy CM Manish Sisodia, Delhi Minister Saurabh Bhardwaj, former ministers Somnath Bharti and Satyendra Jain and party leaders Awadh Ojha and Durgesh Pathak, couldn’t win from their respective constituencies.
AAP had posted a strong show in the previous two assembly elections. In 2020, the party won 62 out of 70 seats, and in 2015, it bagged 67 seats.
The Delhi assembly poll results on February 8 came months after the BJP-led coalition won the Maharashtra polls and the party won in Haryana.
