Prashant Bhushan on Arvind Kejriwal’s Defeat: ‘Beginning of the End’ for AAP in Delhi?

Prashant Bhushan on Arvind Kejriwal’s Defeat: The Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) defeat in the 2025 Delhi Assembly elections against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been attributed to party chief Arvind Kejriwal’s leadership style and departure from alternative politics, according to former AAP leader and senior lawyer Prashant Bhushan.

Former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) member and senior lawyer Prashant Bhushan on Saturday tore into Arvind Kejriwal and said he was "largely responsible" for AAP's defeat in the Delhi Assembly elections.

Taking to X, Bhushan wrote, "Kejriwal is largely responsible for AAP’s Delhi debacle. A party formed for alternative politics which was supposed to be transparent, accountable & democratic was quickly transformed by Arvind into a supremo dominated, non transparent & corrupt party which didn’t pursue a Lokpal & removed its own Lokpal."

Kejriwal is largely responsible for AAP’s Delhi debacle. A party formed for alternative politics which was supposed to be transparent, accountable & democratic was quickly transformed by Arvind into a supremo dominated, non transparent & corrupt party which didn’t pursue a Lokpal…

— Prashant Bhushan (@pbhushan1) February 8, 2025

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Further taking a 'sheesh mahal' swipe at the former CM, which is being touted as one of the reasons for AAP's poor performance, Bhushan said, "He built a 45 Cr sheesh mahal for himself & began travelling in luxury cars. He binned 33 detailed Policy reports of expert committees set up by AAP, saying that the party will adopt expedient policies when the time comes."

"He felt that politics could be done by bluster & propaganda. This is the beginning of the end of AAP," Prashant Bhushan said as he lashed out at Kejriwal.

Swaraj India party co-founder Yogendra Yadav said called AAP's loss a huge setback not just for the AAP but “all those who dreamt of alternative politics in this country 10-12 years ago.”

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"It is a setback for all the parties which supported AAP and for the entire opposition in the country," news agency PTI quoted Yadav, who claimed the that the party “gave up” on alternative politics soon after coming to power and got restricted to welfare schemes that reached a saturation point.

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