What were the issues that made headlines in Delhi politics?
The aam aadmi party (AAP) suffered a major setback in february this year, just two months after winning the Municipal Corporation of delhi (MCD) elections, when the then deputy chief minister of delhi and senior party leader manish Sisodia was booked by the cbi in the excise policy case. Was arrested. The ruling party in delhi suffered another setback in october when its rajya sabha member sanjay singh was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case related to the excise policy matter.
BJP intensified its efforts in 2023 to weaken the aam aadmi party on issues including corruption and poor infrastructure in Delhi. The delhi unit of Congress, under the leadership of its new chief Arvinder Singh Lovely, has intensified efforts to infuse new energy into its organization in the national capital before the 2024 lok sabha elections and 2025 assembly elections.
There are allegations of corruption against AAP leaders, but it says that due to the increasing popularity of the party across the country, the investigating agencies are after it at the behest of the BJP-led central government. However, this year a good news also came for AAP. The election commission gave it the status of national party on the basis of its performance in the elections in delhi, Goa, punjab and Gujarat.
The party alleges that delhi Chief minister arvind kejriwal is also in danger of arrest as the Enforcement Directorate has sent summons to him twice to appear in the money laundering case related to excise policy. kejriwal has not yet appeared before the agency calling these summons illegal, but another summons has been sent to him to appear on january 3.