Ousted AAP leader Prashant Bhushan explains why Arvind Kejriwal lost Delhi election

Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) defeat in the Delhi assembly election 2025 against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been attributed to the party supremo's “bluster, propaganda” and "shift from the idea of providing an alternative politics" by his former colleagues.

The BJP stormed back to power in Delhi after a 27-year gap, winning 48 of the 70 assembly seats and leaving 22 for the AAP, massively down from its 2020 election tally of 62. Congress, an ally of the AAP under the INDIA bloc, fought the Delhi poll 2025 separately and failed to win even a single seat.

The counting of votes for the Delhi assembly election took place on Saturday, February 8. Swaraj India party co-founder and psephologist Yogendra Yadav, one of the founding members of AAP who was expelled from the party in 2015 along with Prashant Bhushan, termed the party's loss a setback for all those who dreamt of alternative politics.