The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has officially withdrawn from the INDIA alliance following the conclusion of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, party MP Sanjay Singh confirmed on Wednesday.
While AAP and Congress had fought the Lok Sabha elections together in Delhi under the INDIA bloc banner, the two parties chose to go separate ways in the assembly polls held in Haryana and Delhi. Speaking to mediapersons, Sanjay Singh clarified that the alliance was only meant to be a strategic partnership for the national elections. “We have made our stand clear — the INDIA alliance was only for the Lok Sabha elections. In Parliament, we have always opposed the Centre’s wrong policies and will continue to do so,” Singh stated.
He also outlined the party's primary agenda for the upcoming Monsoon Session of Parliament, scheduled between July 21 and August 21. AAP, he said, will focus on what it calls the “bulldozer politics” of the BJP-led administration in Delhi. “Our current concern is how homes and shops belonging to people from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and Purvanchal are being bulldozed in Delhi. This is the issue we will raise forcefully in Parliament,” Singh added.
Reinforcing this stand, Singh declared, “As of today, AAP is officially not part of the INDIA alliance. Our collaboration was limited to the Lok Sabha elections.” The party's stance aligns with recent remarks and actions by AAP National Convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. At a protest held on Sunday at Jantar Mantar, Kejriwal sharply criticised the BJP government over the demolition drives in Delhi, which he claimed were targeting the poor and marginalised communities living in slums.
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“In this scorching 50°C heat, they are tearing down the homes of poor people, leaving them helpless on the streets,” Kejriwal said, addressing party workers at the rally. “These people live near their workplaces. If their slums are destroyed, so is their livelihood.” He accused the BJP of carrying out these demolitions with full intent, alleging that he had already warned voters of this during the election campaign. “Before the elections, I had released a video telling people not to vote for them, even by mistake, because their eyes are on your land. I said if you vote for them, your slums will be gone in a year,” Kejriwal said.
“But they didn’t even wait a year. In just five months, they have run bulldozers across Delhi and destroyed people’s lives,” he added. The Sunday protest at Jantar Mantar was led by Kejriwal himself, alongside former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia and Delhi state president Saurabh Bharadwaj, signaling the party’s intent to keep the pressure on the government over what they term a “deliberate assault” on the urban poor.
With AAP now distancing itself from the INDIA bloc, the party seems set to chart an independent course in Parliament — one focused on confronting the BJP over governance issues in the national capital, particularly those impacting migrant and working-class communities.
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