Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Thursdaycongratulated SAD-BJP candidate Manjinder Singh Sirsa for his convincing win in the…
Sukhbir Singh Badal (PHOTO: Facebook)
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Thursdaycongratulated SAD-BJP candidate Manjinder Singh Sirsa for his convincing win in the Rajouri Garden bypoll.
Badal said that the combine had demolished the Aam Adami Party (AAP) on its home turf and that the loss heralded the end of AAP as a political entity in the country.
In a statement here, Badal said that the result was a referendum on the policies of the AAP in Delhi and had set the tone for the complete defeat of the AAP in the forthcoming elections to the Delhi municipal corporation.
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Former AAP legislator from Rajouri Garden Jarnail Singh, who resigned from this seat to contest elections from the Lambi constituency in Punjab, had earlier won this seat by a margin of 10,000 votes.
"As Rajouri Garden is a Sikh dominated seat the severe erosion in the vote share of AAP is a clear indication of the party's current popularity amongst the Sikh community," Badal said.
While congratulating Sirsa for putting the AAP in back gear, Badal said now all dreams of the party to expand to other states, including Gujarat, had been quashed. "The AAP as a political entity will be finished in the next two years," he added.
The SAD president also thanked the electorate of Rajouri Garden for sending out a clear cut signal that the people were not in favour of the confrontationist policies of AAP. "Such policies have resulted in a governance paralysis and development has come to a crushing halt."
He said that the development could only occur with cooperation. "People have given a clear signal that they do not like Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal's confrontationist attitude with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This is also a verdict in favour of the pro development policies of the PM Modi and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA)," he added.
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