TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ After the Aam Aadmi Party’s unimpressive show in the civic polls in Delhi, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday admitted that mistakes were made. Till now, Kejriwal and most of the other top AAP leaders had been blaming Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) tampering for the AAP’s defeat in Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) polls.
However, a few leaders came out in the open and said blaming the EVMs entirely for its poll defeats was wrong when “there is mistrust among people for us”. Vishwas, considered close to Chief Minister and party founder Arvind Kejriwal, had yesterday said the AAP needed to “introspect” over its defeat in the April 23 Delhi municipal polls.
On Saturday morning, Kejriwal called for a need to “introspect and course correct”. The Delhi CM said that based on his interactions with “volunteers and voters”, it was obvious that the party made mistakes and there was a need to go back to the “drawing board”.
“Need is action and not excuses,” he said, amid growing clamour in the party to desist from raking up the issue of EVMs being “tampered with” to favour the BJP, an allegation rubbished by the Election Commission.
