Gujarat election results: AAP plays spoiler, claims win with national status
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Gujarat election results: AAP plays spoiler, claims win with national status

Hindustan Times  

AHMEDABAD/NEW DELHI For over three months, the biggest names in the Aam Aadmi Party — from party chief Arvind Kejriwal to Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann and Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha — made Gujarat their second home. The bigger picture is that we have made an entry in Gujarat, but there is some disappointment.” Particularly frustrating for the party is the fact that it drew a blank in areas such as Surat in south Gujarat, where it invested significant time and resources, hoping to capitalise on residual anger among migrants and Patidars, and where it fielded its strongest candidates, most notably state party chief Gopal Italia, Alpesh Katheriya and Dharmik Malviya, all former PAAS leaders. Political experts said the results exposed the AAP’s lack of a grassroots network in Gujarat, and the absence of a sustained party building exercise, compared to the entrenched networks of the BJP and the Congress. To earn this status, the party needed to win 6% of the vote and at least two seats across four states, with Gujarat the key after Delhi, Punjab and Goa. Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia tweeted, “ Gujarat voters are making the AAP a national party.

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