Roshanrocks Posted May 18, 2014 Posted May 18, 2014 Blame game has started! NEW DELHI: As the disastrous outcome of the Lok Sabha elections sinks in among the leaders of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), at least two founding members blamed it on the troika of Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh. Poor ticket selection and quitting the Delhi government in haste are being seen by a section of the leadership as the main reasons for the debacle. Political Affairs Committee (PAC) member Ilyas Azmi accused the troika of "bossism'', saying it had destroyed the party's chances. "I don't know how far it is true but allegations were made that tickets were sold. That damaged us. Also PAC was just a rubber stamp, all the decisions on ticket selection were already taken by Kejriwal and Sisodia,'' he said. The sentiment on tickets being "pre-decided'' was echoed by another founding member. The member, who did not want to be named, said, "Why go through the pretence of application process when tickets were already decided? It led to a lot of bad blood.'' Azmi has been described as a disgruntled element by the party ever since he was overlooked for the Lucknow constituency. Azmi does not dispute that he had sought the Lucknow ticket, "I am a two-time MP. It was decided that the seniors in the party will fight against the senior leaders of the rival party. I was ready to take on the challenge to contest against BJP's Rajnath Singh but the ticket was given to newcomer Jaaved Jaaferi without any consultations.'' While expressing unhappiness at the lack of internal democracy, Azmi said he would not resign from the party. Other senior leaders said the "deserter'' tag had stuck to the party. Ghaziabad candidate Shazia Ilmi said, "Across the country wherever we campaigned, there was anger and positive resentment from the public for quitting in haste. The question that we quit haunted us wherever we went.'' Amethi candidate Kumar Vishwas agreed, "We were not able to justify resigning from the party...that hurt us. But the public sentiment was with BJP's Narendra Modi.'' Senior leader Yogendra Yadav admitted that the party had quit in haste and not been able to hold deliberations in public. "The decision to resign from Delhi was hasty...and this left a negative impression among people. While we may have erred in our decision, we have not compromised on our honesty.'' He said the party would work on learning from its mistakes. On Ilyas Azmi's allegations Yadav said, "Azmi is a member of the party's highest decision making body (PAC). I am surprised he never raised this point in any of the PAC meetings. I am disappointed that he raised this matter only after being denied a ticket from the constituency of his choice.''
game_changerr Posted May 18, 2014 Posted May 18, 2014 AAP has more threads on icf than their lok sabha seats,,,,,
bulbul Posted May 18, 2014 Posted May 18, 2014 AAP has more threads on icf than their lok sabha seats' date=',,,,[/quote'] :cantstop:
Sachin=GOD Posted May 18, 2014 Posted May 18, 2014 AAP has more threads on icf than their lok sabha seats' date=',,,,[/quote'] AAP leaders got more slaps than seats.
JaiRamesh2 Posted May 18, 2014 Posted May 18, 2014 AAP has more threads on icf than their lok sabha seats' date=',,,,[/quote'] :cantstop:
G_B_ Posted May 18, 2014 Posted May 18, 2014 some of their selections did not make any sense Damania from mumbai was jettisoned to nagpur to fight elections. Her entire campaigned hinged on saying you are so poor.
bulbul Posted May 18, 2014 Posted May 18, 2014 some of their selections did not make any sense Damania from mumbai was jettisoned to nagpur to fight elections. Her entire campaigned hinged on saying you are so poor. Gadkari.
FischerTal Posted May 18, 2014 Posted May 18, 2014 some of their selections did not make any sense Damania from mumbai was jettisoned to nagpur to fight elections. Her entire campaigned hinged on saying you are so poor. even kejriwal, if he had contested from delhi, would have easily got victory in some seat.
JaiRamesh2 Posted May 18, 2014 Posted May 18, 2014 even kejriwal' date=' if he had contested from delhi, would have easily got victory in some seat.[/quote'] Kejriwal was apparently fighting 10 years of UPA corruption. But the parasite contest against Modi. No show vs Rahul Gandhi or Sonia Gandhi, the leaders of Congress overseeing all the scams. No wonder AAP is accused as a Congress proxy.
Precambrian Posted May 18, 2014 Posted May 18, 2014 AAP has more threads on icf than their lok sabha seats' date=',,,,[/quote'] brilliant :hysterical: mega-giga-hyper-overrated party in history
Precambrian Posted May 18, 2014 Posted May 18, 2014 Kejriwal was apparently fighting 10 years of UPA corruption. But the parasite contest against Modi. No show vs Rahul Gandhi or Sonia Gandhi, the leaders of Congress overseeing all the scams. No wonder AAP is accused as a Congress proxy. The party lost its focus, it thrived on its core agenda against corruption but suddenly when modi came around Kejri u turned and made it anti-communal. God knows why they decided to target Modi of all people. Totally forgot that Modi was riding the anti incumbency wave and not battling it.
bulbul Posted May 18, 2014 Posted May 18, 2014 The party lost its focus, it thrived on its core agenda against corruption but suddenly when modi came around Kejri u turned and made it anti-communal. God knows why they decided to target Modi of all people. Totally forgot that Modi was riding the anti incumbency wave and not battling it. Maximum publicity..they spent 40 lakhs there but gave nothing to other candidates.
Roshanrocks Posted May 18, 2014 Author Posted May 18, 2014 Sitting at home a day before the counting of votes, AAP leader Prashant Bhushan was expecting at least 15 seats for his party. "We feel that we have a strong chance in 15 seats, but we will be happy with eight." But if we get less than that, then we have a lot of work ahead of us," he told Hindustan Times. A day later, on Friday, the 16th, Bhushan's party won just four seats, all in Punjab. If the party was looking for a notable presence in Parliament, then its only hope was from the state that had been traditionally dominated by the SAD-BJP combine battling the Congress for decades. AAP won Sangrur, Faridkot, Patiala and Fatehgarh seats in Punjab. In Sangrur, AAP's candidate Bhagwant Mann was a clear favourite all along. But if AAP did well in Punjab, it failed to win any seats in any other part of the country. Party chief Arvind Kejriwal lost Varanasi to PM designate Narendra Modi. In a city like Mumbai, where AAP was expecting their candidate Medha Patkar to snatch a victory, the party failed to open its account. AAP's hopes to be recognised as a national party after the elections were also shattered as it failed to get the required 6% vote share each, in at least four states. Clearly, the party suffered due to a series of strategic blunders before the polls began. Most people agree that Kejriwal's decision to quit as Delhi's CM after merely 49 days in power was the biggest mistake that cost the party dearly. "Had he continued, we could have concentrated in Delhi, Haryana and Punjab to swing more seats. We kept warning the party leadership, but they had become so unapproachable that we had no possible means of communicating our fears to them," a senior AAP leader told HT. While AAP fielded more candidates than the BJP or the Congress, their efforts came a cropper. Bhushan accepted that the party has several challenges ahead. "We need to prepare for internal party elections and also set up a grievance redress mechanism. We also have to start building the party in states where we don't have a presence. But we will start focusing on the assembly elections in Delhi, Punjab and Haryana." Within the party there were loud murmurs that the senior leadership of Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, Sanjay Singh and Gopal Rai had become virtually unapproachable to volunteers. "They stopped meeting us, wouldn't reply to smses, ignored our suggestions and did as they pleased," another senior AAP founder member told HT. In Delhi, where AAP contested all seven Parliamentary seats, the city in-charge, Ashish Talwar, was extremely unpopular among volunteers. Scores of volunteers HT spoke to complained that there had been numerous complaints against Talwar but they had all been ignored. "He used to speak rudely and never gave any attention to volunteers' suggestions. Defeat was staring us in the face but none of the senior leadership took a call on Talwar and, instead, allowed him to run amok," another senior founder member told HT. The senior AAP leadership also felt that the media had turned against them. "But instead of reaching out to the media to start a dialogue, our leadership got terrible advice to start boycotting media organisations. Without an alternate platform available, we were caught in a bind and that contributed largely to the middle class voter turning away from us," the AAP founder member said. This will also have an impact on the party's finances in the future. It managed to garner about R35 crore for the general elections, but with donations likely to shrink after the Parliamentary elections, it is not sure how it will sustain itself. Finally, it was the AAP's record in the 49 days when it ruled Delhi that came back to haunt them. As a senior bureaucrat in Delhi summed it up, AAP failed to produce a few noticeable changes that would have made all the difference. "I advised Kejriwal that his government had to do a few things that could have made his governance visible. All he had to do was keep the city roads in good shape, ensure that garbage was collected and the colonies remained clean. Simple administrative moves like these would have made a huge difference, instead of staking their future on a Jan Lokpal Bill. Their dharna over the control over Delhi Police was a great idea, but the immediate cause was wrong. We tried telling this to Kejriwal, but he refused to listen to us." In some ways, the perceived inability of Kejriwal and his senior colleagues to build consensus, and listen to his well-wishers, also proved to be a major strategic blunder.
Roshanrocks Posted May 18, 2014 Author Posted May 18, 2014 Positives for AAP ~ scored more seats than Mayavati ~ Scored more seats than MNS
Roshanrocks Posted May 18, 2014 Author Posted May 18, 2014 According to Election Commission rules a candidate loses his deposit if he doesn't get at least one sixth of the total votes polled, with an average of around 8 lakhs votes polled the MNS candidates have not been able to get more than 1.33 lakh votes to save their deposits. Four of its strongest candidates have also lost their deposits. Banker turned politician of the AAP, Meera Sanyal got just around 35,000 votes. Mayank Gandhi got just above 51,000 votes. Even their strongest candidate Medha Patkar just got more than 59,000 votes again not enough to save her deposit. The only saving grace was their party candidate Wamanrao Chatap who managed to save his deposit by getting more than 2 lakh votes and is in third position in Chandrapur.
Roshanrocks Posted May 18, 2014 Author Posted May 18, 2014 AAP peepals begging Kejri to form govt in Delhi by taking kangress support again Kangress parti says NO Won't support AAP again in Delhi, ready for election: Cong 18 May 2014, 1420 hrs IST, AGENCIES Delhi Congress on Sunday (May 18) said it will prefer fresh election in the city to supporting the Aam Aadmi Party again to form a government as favoured by a section of AAP MLAs following the drubbing in the Lok Sabha polls. Chief Spokesperson of Delhi Congress Mukesh Sharma said AAP has no moral right to talk about formation of a government in Delhi again after it went to the Supreme Court seeking dissolution of the assembly and demanding fresh election. "There is no question of extending support to AAP to form a government again. Arvind Kejriwal had deserted people of Delhi by resorting to theatrics. He had gone to the Supreme Court seeking dissolution of the House. We will not support the party again," Sharma said. After its spectacular performance in the assembly polls, the AAP drew a blank in the Lok Sabha polls though its candidate came second in all the seven constituencies relegating all the sitting Congress MPs including Kapil Sibal, Ajay Maken and Krishna Tirath to the third position. "Congress never withdrew support to AAP government. Kejriwal quit the government and left the people of Delhi in a lurch to gain political mileage in the Lok Sabha polls. As they did not succeed in the Lok Sabha polls, they are talking about forming government again," said Sharma. In the Lok Sabha polls, BJP not only won all the seven seats but also came first in 60 assembly segments out of 70 while AAP occupied top position only in 10 assembly segments. Following the party's dismal performance, some MLAs of the AAP yesterday had mooted a proposal for the party to once again form government in Delhi, with support from either the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) or the Congress. A section in the party feels that it should not opt for going to polls immediately and should explore forming the government again. Sources in AAP said majority of sitting MLAs in the party did not want to fresh election immediately thinking the "Modi wave" may flatten them all if polls are held anytime soon. Accusing Kejriwal of "helping" BJP by ensuring "division of secular votes" in Delhi and elsewhere, Sharma also did not rule out the possibility of some AAP MLAs defecting to the saffron party. "Kejriwal has been helping BJP. He ensured BJP's sweep in Delhi through division of secular votes. There is a possibility of some AAP MLAs defecting to BJP. If that happens, then Kejriwal will be responsible," said Sharma. He said notwithstanding Congress' poor show, the party was ready for fresh election. "We are ready for elections," Sharma said. The BJP has already said that it would prefer fresh election than forming a government through "manipulation".
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