Aam Aadmi Party

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Aam Aadmi Party
Aam Aadmi Party logo.svg
Party leader Arvind Kejriwal
founding November 26, 2012
Website www.aamaadmiparty.org
The sweeping broom , the party symbol of the Aam Aadmi Party

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) ( Hindi : आम आदमी पार्टी ; Urdu : عام آدمی پارٹی"Common Man's Party") is a political party in India . The party emerged from the anti-corruption movement and was founded in November 2012 under the leadership of Arvind Kejriwal .

history

Arvind Kejriwal at a party event in Bangalore (July 2013)

The roots of the AAP lie in the India Against Corruption movement around the activist Anna Hazare . Hazare went on hunger strike in April 2011 to force the Indian government to introduce stricter anti-corruption legislation. Hazare's activism soon expanded into an India-wide mass movement. In the course of 2012 there was a split in the leadership of the anti-corruption movement, the so-called Team Anna , over the question of political participation: While Hazare was in favor of not participating in party politics, a parliamentary group around Arvind Kejriwal wanted a party set up to change the political system from within. On November 26, 2012, the anniversary of the entry into force of the Indian Constitution, the AAP was formally established in Delhi. In March 2013, the Indian Electoral Commission officially registered the AAP as a party.

The AAP first took part in the regional elections in the capital city of Delhi on December 4, 2013. As a result of the election, the party won 28 out of 70 constituencies and became the second strongest force behind the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), while the congress party that had ruled until then was severely punished and dropped to third place. Since none of the three camps was able to achieve their own majority and the parties had ruled out cooperation with each other in the run-up to the election, a political stalemate ensued. Finally, the AAP decided to form a minority government with the support of the Congress Party. On December 28, 2013, Arvind Kejriwal was sworn in as the Chief Minister ( Prime Minister ) of Delhi. But after less than two months, Kejriwal resigned because an anti-corruption law that was important from the AAP's point of view was blocked in parliament. The lieutenant governor placed Delhi under President's rule on February 16, 2014 .

Parliamentary elections in Delhi in 2013, 2015 and 2020
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Won constituencies in the elections on December 4, 2013, February 7, 2015 and February 8, 2020.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Congress Party (INC) Janata Dal (United) (JD (U)) Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)





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In the 2014 all- India general election , AAP ran in several states and won 4 seats (out of a total of 543 possible). All four constituencies that were won were in Punjab . Nationwide it received 11.3 million votes (2.0%).

On February 7, 2015, elections to the regional parliament of Delhi took place again. The AAP won 54.3% of the vote and 67 out of 70 constituencies (96%). The BJP won 32.2% of the vote and 3 constituencies. It was the BJP's first major electoral defeat since it won the 2014 parliamentary elections. Arvind Kejriwal was sworn in for the second time as head of government of Delhi in a public ceremony on February 14, 2015 in front of thousands of enthusiastic supporters. In a speech he stated that he wanted to end the " VIP culture" in Indian politics, which grant politicians unjustified privileges ( "We want to end the VIP culture in this country" ).

After winning the election in Delhi in 2015, there were internal party quarrels in the AAP. Party leader Arvind Kejriwal had two of his closest aides and co-founders of the AAP, Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan, expelled from the party's governing bodies after they criticized his leadership style. Political commentators were disaffected. It turns out that the AAP is ultimately “an institution dominated by one person and not the political cooperative that many had thought it was.” ( “It teaches us that the AAP is a form of sole proprietorship, not the political cooperative that many thought it was. " )

In the parliamentary elections in Punjab on February 4, 2017, the AAP won 20 out of 117 constituencies. The AAP was again able to win the election to the Parliament of the Union Territory of Delhi on February 8, 2020 (53.6% of the votes and 62 electoral districts out of 70 won).

Web links

Commons : Aam Aadmi Party  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ India Today, November 26, 2012: "Arvind Kejriwal formally launches Aam Aadmi Party".
  2. ↑ The Hindu, March 23, 2013: "Aam Aadmi Party now a registered political party".
  3. ↑ The Hindu, December 28, 2013: "Kejriwal takes oath promising power to people".
  4. ^ The Hindu, February 16, 2014: "President's rule imposed in Delhi".
  5. ^ Election Commission of India - General Election to Lok Sabha Trends & Result 2014
  6. ^ Delhi Assembly Election 2015. The Hindu, accessed February 8, 2015 .
  7. ^ Delhi Assembly Election. The Hindu, accessed February 10, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Slap in the capital city election: slap in the face for India's premier - tagesschau.de . February 10, 2015. Archived from the original on February 11, 2015. Retrieved on February 10, 2015.
  9. ↑ Delhi chief Arvind Kejriwal swears to end 'VIP culture'. BBC News, March 14, 2015, accessed March 15, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Neha Lalchandani: Yogendra Yadav, Prashant Bhushan sacked from AAP national executive. The Times of India, March 28, 2015, accessed March 31, 2015 .
  11. ^ Mukul Kesavan: No place for peers - Presumption and parochialism. The Telegraph (Calcutta), March 30, 2015, accessed March 31, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Punjab Election Results 2017. livemint.com, accessed on 12 March 2017 (English).
  13. ↑ GENERAL ELECTION TO VIDHAN SABHA TRENDS & RESULT FEB-2020: NCT OF Delhi. Indian Election Commission, accessed February 17, 2020 .