New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) was trailing in 19 of the 22 Lok Sabha seats it is contesting across the country, leading only in three of the 13 Parliamentary constituencies in Punjab. While it went for a seat-sharing arrangement in Delhi, Gujarat, Goa, Haryana and Chandigarh with the Congress as part of the INDIA bloc, it went alone in the 13 constituencies in Punjab and two in Assam.
Delhi is a bellwether seat – a trend which indicates that the side that wins Delhi, usually wins the Lok Sabha elections across the country. Around noon, the AAP was leading in just four Lok Sabha seats – all from Punjab – with a thin margin in Anandpur Sahib. The party was relatively comfortably placed in Hoshiarpur and more so in Sangrur. The AAP’s sole Lok Sabha MP, Sushil Kumar Rinku, broke ranks and joined the BJP; he is contesting from Jalandhar.
In Delhi, meanwhile, it trailed in all four seats: South, East, West and New Delhi. Its vote share, however, recorded an upward trend: at around 26% compared to the overall 18 per cent in 2019. It was in second place in Gujarat’s Bhavnagar and Bharuch as well as Haryana’s Kurukshetra while it was in third place in Assam’s Dibrugarh and Sonitpur.
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