The Aam Aadmi Party will not contest the Maharashtra Assembly elections or the Jharkhand Assembly elections, but Arvind Kejriwal will definitely campaign for the INDIA block in both the states. This Arvind Kejriwal campaign will also be like the Lok Sabha elections, but there will be a difference between the two, and it will be a big difference.
Arvind Kejriwal had campaigned for the India Block in the Lok Sabha elections, but this time there are signs that he is not going to campaign for Congress candidates. In the Lok Sabha elections, Arvind Kejriwal undertook a tour for Congress candidates in Delhi.
Arvind Kejriwal had held a joint rally in Jamshedpur with Hemant Soren’s wife Kalpana Soren in the Lok Sabha elections and had also appealed to the people of Jharkhand to take revenge for the Chief Minister’s arrest. He said similar things to himself in Delhi: if the people of Delhi make the India Bloc win, then he won’t have to go to jail. But as soon as the interim bail period was over, he had to go to jail. Arvind Kejriwal is currently out on bail in the Delhi Liquor Policy case.
According to AAP leader Sanjay Singh, Arvind Kejriwal has already made it clear that wherever he is called in Jharkhand and Maharashtra, Indian Alliance candidates will definitely go to campaign; The question is whether this also applies to congressional candidates.
Kejriwal’s campaign to blockade INDIA
According to a report in the English newspaper Indian Express citing AAP sources, two political parties in Maharashtra have contacted Arvind Kejriwal for the election campaign and he is willing to hold some rallies. It has not yet been decided when and where these demonstrations will take place.
So far, it has only been said that Arvind Kejriwal will campaign for India Block political parties in the Maharashtra and Jharkhand assembly elections in November. In Maharashtra, former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is said to be campaigning for Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) and NCP (Sharad Chandra Pawar) candidates. Similarly, in Jharkhand, Arvind Kejriwal will go to seek votes for Jharkhand Mukti Morcha candidates.
The big question is whether Arvind Kejriwal doesn’t want to campaign for Congress candidates. And that is why it has been made a condition that he will campaign for the candidates who are called.
This scenario will only become clear when a Congress candidate is called and Arvind Kejriwal refuses to seek votes for him, but this issue does not end here.
If Arvind Kejriwal agreed to campaign for three parties in Maharashtra, then he must have spoken to the leaders of those political parties i.e. Hemant Soren, Sharad Pawar and Uddhav Thackeray. It would not have happened that all the candidates of the three parties had sent invitations to Arvind Kejriwal for the campaign one by one or separately.
Will a similar scene be seen during the Delhi Assembly elections too?
Why is Kejriwal avoiding Congress?
Both the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party have their own roles in the formation of the INDIA bloc. The opposition alliance’s initiative was taken by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, but it was awaiting approval from the Congress before going ahead. After the approval of the Congress, not only was the alliance formed but it was also named India. But even after meeting the Congress, the absence of the Aam Aadmi Party was felt, and this deficiency was filled only when the Congress made a public announcement of support for the Aam Aadmi Party in the Delhi Services Bill.
But despite everything, relations between the Congress and Kejriwal could never fully improve. Even during the Lok Sabha elections, there were many such incidents when leaders of both parties avoided sharing the stage.
In Lucknow, Arvind Kejriwal and Mallikarjun Kharge attended the press conference with Akhilesh Yadav one by one, not together, and also in Delhi, even though Arvind Kejriwal held roadshows for Congress candidates Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi or Mallikarjun Kharge did not. even a single road show with him.
Is Arvind Kejriwal now sidelining the Congress and creating new factionalism in the India Block? After the 2021 Bengal Assembly elections, Mamata Banerjee was also making similar efforts. Then Mamata Banerjee was also with Sharad Pawar and Uddhav Thackeray, now there is also Arvind Kejriwal, but Congress seems to be on the sidelines.
Rahul Gandhi’s stature has increased significantly after winning more seats than ever in the Lok Sabha elections, and now he has even become the leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha, and this makes Rahul Gandhi better than Arvind to challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Kejriwal seems to be lagging behind.
So, does Arvind Kejriwal now want to pull a new trick to catch up with Rahul Gandhi?
