AAP trails on all Delhi seats, says 'gave strong fight to BJP'

The BJP is set to repeat its 2019 performance in Delhi as the saffron party was leading by a comfortable margin on all seven Lok Sabha seats in the national capital on Tuesday.

The ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), staring at back-to-back defeats in the Lok Sabha elections, said that their candidates gave a tough fight to the BJP in Delhi and that the people had voted against the saffron party's politics of "hatred and dictatorship".

"We contested the polls in adverse circumstances. The number of MPs in Punjab will increase. In Delhi, we gave a strong fight to BJP and the margins are narrow this time (as compared to 2019)," AAP's Delhi state convener Gopal Rai said in a statement.

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As per the seat-sharing formula, AAP contested on four seats while Congress was in the fray for three seats in the national capital.

Meanwhile, AAP's Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh said the outcome of the polls showed that people were "tired of the 10-year rule of BJP and want to oust them.

"... They are tired of inflation. It is the beauty of India's democracy that people have said to the BJP to go back," he said, as quoted by news agency PTI.

The latest trends showed the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) winning 12 seats and leading on 283 other seats at the time of writing this news. In Delhi, the BJP was on course to sweep all seven seats.

On being asked about the BJP's poll performance, Singh said, "The results are a big lesson for the BJP and its politics of hatred and dictatorship. If the Prime Minister has the least bit of morality, he should step down for giving the slogan of 400 paar."

As per the latest trends by the Election Commission, the AAP has won three Lok Sabha seats in Punjab.

On being asked about the future strategy of the Opposition INDIA bloc, Singh said that the leaders of the alliance will meet soon and decide about the future strategy.