In the 2025 Delhi assembly election, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Congress fought each other instead of teaming up against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which led to a big win for the BJP. The Shiv Sena party, through their newspaper ‘Saamana’, pointed out that AAP and Congress wasted time attacking each other, making it easy for Prime Minister Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah to win.
In the election for the 70 seats in the Delhi assembly, the BJP took 48 seats while AAP got only 22 seats, and Congress didn’t win any seats for the third time in a row. The editorial said, “If AAP and Congress keep trying to destroy each other, why bother forming alliances? They might as well just keep fighting!”
The article also noted that similar defeats happened for opposition parties in Maharashtra and Haryana. The BJP won in Maharashtra as well, and Shiv Sena warned that if opposition parties don’t learn from the Delhi results, it would only make the government under Modi and Shah more powerful.
Omar Abdullah, the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, also made fun of AAP and Congress, telling them to keep fighting each other. Earlier, social activist Anna Hazare criticized Kejriwal and asked Delhi voters to choose honest leaders. However, he did not speak out about corruption concerning the Modi government.
The editorial claimed that the losses in Delhi and similar situations in Maharashtra hurt democracy. It highlighted that disunity among opposition parties only helped the BJP. It sarcastically stated that if this continues, they don’t need alliances—just keep fighting among themselves. If they don’t learn from these elections, they would be helping autocracy grow.
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