Sisodia launched his campaign to reach out to people through football matches in all the Assembly constituencies. | Photo: PTI
AAP leader Manish Sisodia on Saturday claimed that his party will win all 70 seats in the Delhi Assembly if elections are held now.
Speaking during his ‘Padyatra’ campaign in Rajender Nagar Assembly constituency, the former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister also attacked the BJP, accusing it of jailing him and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in “false” cases.
Recalling the “affection” he received during his campaign in different parts of the city, Sisodia said, “The Aam Aadmi Party will win all 70 Assembly seats if elections are held right now and it gets 70 per cent of the total votes.”
The Delhi Assembly elections are due in February next year. The AAP had won 62 of the 70 seats in the last Assembly elections but failed to open its account in the national capital in the recent Lok Sabha elections.
“The BJP people were concerned about the love and affection people showed towards me,” said Sisodia, who was released earlier this month after spending 17 months in Tihar Jail following his arrest in excise tax cases.
“When I came out, BJP people started saying that this Manish Sisodia had come out smiling. I came out smiling because I had done nothing wrong,” he said.
The senior AAP leader said he emerged stronger from jail because he had not committed any crime and also because the party “stayed united” despite his and Kejriwal’s arrest and imprisonment.
Sisodia claimed that the BJP “toppled many governments”, including those of Maharashtra, Uttarakhand and Arunachal Pradesh, and “dismembered parties” by sending ED and CBI against their leaders, but the Aam Aadmi Party did not break or bend.
“This is the power of the people of Delhi who love Arvind Kejriwal very much. He will also be among us very soon,” he said.
AAP supremo and Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal is in jail in connection with the excise policy cases.
Sisodia launched his campaign to reach out to people through football matches in all the Assembly constituencies soon after he was released from jail on bail. It began in the Greater Kailash constituency on August 16.
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First published: August 31, 2024 | 22:28 IS
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