Delhi Polls Approach: AAP to Scale Back Participation in Maharashtra and Jharkhand Elections

Delhi Polls Approach: With the Delhi assembly polls round the corner, AAP will focus on the capital and not invest much on Jharkhand and Maharashtra assembly polls. Also, it won’t form any alliance in these states, News18 has learnt.

Election Commission of India on Tuesday announced the dates for the assembly polls in the two states in November.

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Talking to News18, an AAP leader said there is no official discussion on how many seats they will contest in these states. Also, like Haryana and J&K, they will go solo on whichever seats they contest.

“We put a lot of strength in Haryana and now Delhi will also go for polls in a few months. We want to channelise our energy in Delhi, our home state,” the party leader said, seeking anonymity.

While AAP is yet to decide on Maharashtra and Jharkhand, the party is clear they will contest on seats where they have manpower and potential candidates. The party will decide in a week or so on how many seats they can contest.

In Maharashtra, AAP has a base in and around Mumbai and a few more areas. In Jharkhand, they can contest solo in certain seats.

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In both Jharkhand and Maharashtra, AAP tried in 2019 as well but it was a failed attempt. In Maharashtra, out of 288 seats, AAP contested 24 seats and 23 of these candidates lost their deposit. The party got 57,855 votes, less than NOTA (7.42 lakh votes).

In Jharkhand, they contested 26 out of 81 seats and all the candidates lost deposit. The party got 35,252 votes, as against 2.05 lakh votes for NOTA. Total votes polled in Jharkhand were 1.50 crore and in Maharashtra 5.51 crore and AAP’s share was less than one per cent.

In the recent Haryana polls, AAP contested all 90 seats and got zero. But they got lucky in J&K as they won the Doda assembly seat, so they are now present in five states. Apart from governments in Delhi and Punjab, AAP has two MLAs in Goa and five in Gujarat.

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