Accept Verdict, Prep For 2020 Delhi Polls: Arvind Kejriwal To AAP Workers

Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday asked his party workers to accept the people’s verdict in the Lok Sabha elections and focus on the Assembly elections early next year, PTI reported.

This was Kejriwal’s first address to party workers after the Aam Aadmi Party’s defeat in all seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi. The party’s vote share was 18.1%, and stood third in five seats and was runner-up in only two. The Bharatiya Janata Party won all seats with a vote share of 56.6%.

“How’s the josh?” Kejriwal asked as he began addressing a gathering of workers and volunteers at the Punjabi Bagh club in Delhi, according to The Indian Express. He said the party will return to power in 2020 with a mandate bigger than the 2015 Assembly elections, when the party had secured 67 out of 70 seats in Delhi.