Delhi election results rejection of AAP’s politics of ‘deceit, deception’: Congress

The Delhi Assembly election results were a rejection of Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal’s politics of “deceit” and “deception”, not a “vindication of the policies” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said the Congress on Saturday.

Earlier in the day, the Congress failed to win a single seat in the Delhi Assembly for the third consecutive time. The Bharatiya Janata Party defeated the Aam Aadmi Party, securing 48 seats in the 70-member Assembly. The AAP bagged 22 constituencies, showed data from the Election Commission.

The halfway mark to gain a majority in the Delhi Assembly is 36 seats.

The Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress contested the polls separately even though they are members of the Opposition INDIA bloc at the national level. In the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the Aam Aadmi Party-Congress alliance lost all seven parliamentary seats in Delhi to the BJP.

“The 2025 Delhi Vidhan Sabha election results reflect nothing more than a referendum on Arvind Kejriwal and the Aam Aadmi Party,” said Congress leader Jairam Ramesh in a social media post. “After all, at the height of the prime minister’s popularity in 2015 and 2020, AAP had won decisively in Delhi.”

He added: “This shows that, rather than being vindication of the policies of the prime minister, this…

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