The exit of the Aam Aadmi Party from the INDIA bloc just ahead of the monsoon session of Parliament does not bode well for the grouping’s future, especially with crucial state elections around the corner. AAP justified its move, saying the alliance had been only for the 2024 election. Party MP Sanjay Singh also blamed the Congress for not taking the lead, despite being the largest party in the bloc, in arranging follow-up meetings or strategy sessions.

Burnt after its poor showing in the 2024 Lok Sabha election in Delhi, which the AAP fought in alliance with the Congress (the BJP won all seven seats), it decided to go solo in the Assembly election in Delhi a few months later but suffered a humiliating defeat. After licking its wounds in private for some time, the........

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