Dear Mr Kejriwal, Please Hold A Referendum On Delhi Again

The Aam Aadmi Party received a bad thrashing this elections. Although they managed to clinch four seats in Punjab, they lost all the seven seats in the national capital where they had formed a government last year for 49 days.

Most of the AAP members kept their silence after their bitter defeat where all its big leaders lost their deposits. A quite-media-friendly party was shying away from it and their leader Arvind Kejriwal was mum on twitter.

But today, some AAP MLAs mooted the proposal for the party to once again form the government in Delhi, with support from either BJP or Congress.

At a meeting of its top leaders, including Arvind Kejriwal, some AAP legislators, who claimed to be around 20 in number, are said to have conveyed to the leadership that the party should make a fresh attempt at forming the government.

Reportedly, party MLA Rajesh Garg mooted the idea while describing Kejriwal’s decision to resign in February after 49 days in power as one of the major reasons behind AAP’s poor showing in the city in Lok Sabha polls.

The Rohini MLA is believed to have said that the party should consider forming the government so that people may benefit from the move.

“This proposal was greeted positively by some 20 AAP MLAs present at the meeting. Kejriwal and other senior leaders heard the views of the MLAs, but did not comment. The legislators left it to the Political Affairs Committee to take a decision on this,” an AAP MLA was uoted by PTI saying on condition of anonymity.

“What is wrong if we formed the government for the welfare of the people? There is nothing wrong in asking for support on a conditional basis,” said another AAP MLA.

The AAP had won 28 seats in the Delhi assembly elections in December last year in its spectacular debut. It had later taken outside support from Congress to form the government in the state holding a referendum.

The party has always supported referendums to take important decisions pertaining to people. After their drubbing in Lok Sabha elections, now will be the time to hold a referendum again and form the government of popular choice.