Back to the drawing board: Kejriwal -Governance Now

Back to the drawing board: Kejriwal

To not evolve would be silly, says Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal

GN Bureau | April 29, 2017

#Arvind Kejriwal #AAP #Aam Aadmi Party #MCD elections 2017

Time to go back to the drawing board, said Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday, days after his party failed to make its mark in the Delhi civic elections.

In a message, Kejriwal said that in the last 2 days, I spoke to many volunteers and voters.

“The reality is obvious. Yes, we made mistakes, but we will introspect and course correct. Time to go back to drawing board.”

He said that to “not evolve would be silly”.

“We owe that to voters n volunteers. We owe that to ourselves. Need is action and not excuses. It’s time to get back to work. And even if we slip from time to time, the key is to find the reserves to hold and pull ourselves up. The people deserve nothing less. The only thing constant is change,” he added.

Read: Arvind Kejriwal: A tornado loses force http://www.governancenow.com/news/regular-story/arvind-kejriwal-aam-aadmi-party-aap-delhi-mcd-elections-municipal-corporations-anand-kumar-swaraj-india-manoj-tiwari-ajay-maken-bjp-congress

Despite facing incumbency, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had succeeded in retaining its hold on all the three municipal corporations of Delhi.

The AAP, which was hoping to dislodge the BJP, failed to get its act together.

Out of a total 272 wards, the BJP won in 183 wards, AAP won 44 and the Congress 32. It coasted to victory in 64 of 104 wards in MCD North, 70 of 104 in MCD South and 49 of 64 in MCD East; well over the halfway mark that gives it control in all three. The results show that in each municipality, the BJP has bettered last time's performance.

The AAP has faced two successive debacles. It did not make the cut in the Punjab and Goa assembly elections. In fact, in Goa, it did not win a single seat. Weeks later, in the Delhi civic elections, the party could not weave its magic that had helped it to victory in the 2015 assembly elections.

Comments

Other News

Global South: Health cooperation needs institutions to make solutions scalable

September 12 marks the International Day for South-South Cooperation, commemorating the 1978 Buenos Aires Plan of Action (BAPA). Forty-eight years later, its central proposition remains relevant: countries of the Global South can draw on their own knowledge, experience and innovations to address shared d

Reading the mind of Xi Jinping

As India prepares to host the 18th BRICS Summit this weekend, and as prime minister Narendra Modi is set to hold a bilateral meet with president Xi Jinping, China’s growing global influence and the changing dynamics of India-China relations will be under focus. But to understand where China is head

BRICS at 20: From economic weight to global influence

This year marks 20 years of BRICS, with India set to host the grouping’s leaders’ summit this weekend. The anniversary offers an opportune moment to assess BRICS’ growing importance at a time when the effectiveness of global governance and the credibility of multilateralism are under in

Former president Ram Nath Kovind on some of his unforgettable journeys

Triumph of the Indian Republic: My Life, My Struggles By Ram Nath Kovind Rupa Publications, 400 pages, Rs 795 All our presidents so far stand out, each for a different reason. Ram Nath Kovind, the 14th president of India, from 2017 t

Uday Kotak on history, Indian economy, growth and more

Pathbreakers: How 10 Visionary Leaders Transformed India by award-winning journalists By Sucheta Dalal and Debashis Basu Rupa Publications, 304 pages, Rs 695

₹5,000 crore saved from suspected financial fraud

In a significant gain for citizen protection in the digital economy, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has helped prevent suspected cyber fraud losses of more than ₹5,000 crore through its Financial Fraud Risk Indicator (FRI) within fifteen months of its launch on May 22, 2025. This money did