Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said the party’s victory in the recent Narmada district panchayat election in Gujarat reflected the people’s yearning for a change in government.
Kejriwal said the AAP had emerged as an alternative to the BJP and Congress ahead of the 2027 Gujarat assembly elections.
The AAP won the Narmada district panchayat and 12 taluka panchayats for the first time in Gujarat during the local body polls held last month.
“For the past 75 years, whether at the state or district level, only Congress or the BJP have formed governments in Gujarat. People used to say that a third party had no place here. However, for the first time, the people of Gujarat have elected AAP to power,” Kejriwal said during a roadshow in Rajpipla in the tribal-dominated Narmada district.
AAP MLA Chaitar Vasava, newly-elected Narmada district president Anjana Vasava, and vice president Sangeeta Tadvi accompanied him during the roadshow.
The former Delhi chief minister said the AAP’s victory showed that the people of Gujarat were looking for change.
“The spark ignited by the people of this tribal region in Narmada district will now spread across Gujarat, and in 2027, the AAP will form a government,” he said.
Kejriwal described the party’s victory in the Narmada district panchayat as “nothing short of a revolution” and alleged that people had endured corruption, oppression and atrocities under the BJP for more than three decades in the absence of an alternative.
He also accused the BJP and Congress of acting in collusion and supporting each other whenever needed.
“A deep sense of brotherhood prevails between the two parties, which are in collusion to loot Gujarat,” Kejriwal alleged.
Claiming that only the AAP was fighting for the people, he said Congress leaders never faced imprisonment, while Chaitar Vasava had gone to jail. Vasava, the AAP MLA from Dediapada in Narmada district, is currently out on bail in an attempt to murder case.
Kejriwal further said the Adivasi community had delivered a “tight slap” to the BJP in the Narmada district polls because people were angry over Vasava’s incarceration.
He urged party workers to perform well, work honestly and maintain the trust reposed in them by the people.
AAP leader Manoj Sorsthiya told mediapersons that, for the first time in Gujarat’s political history, a third party had captured a district panchayat in a state where power traditionally alternated between the BJP and Congress.
Sorsthiya said people elected more than 600 AAP candidates in the recently-concluded local body elections and added that the party also won several taluka panchayats.
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Published By:
Akshat Trivedi
Published On:
May 25, 2026 22:15 IST
