after a day he left as Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) Uttarakhand unit president and quit the party’s membership, Deepak Bali joined on Tuesday. BJP In the presence of Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami and BJP State President Madan Kaushik at the party office here.
Colonel Ajay Kothiyal (Retd) and former working president of the state Bhupesh Upadhyay, AAP’s CM candidate for the recent assembly elections. Quit earlier and joined BJP last monthAlong with several other AAP members.
On Monday, Bali resigned from the party and posted his resignation on Twitter. In a letter addressed to the AAP chief and the Chief Minister of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal, and marked the party’s state in-charge Dinesh Mohaniya, Bali said that he was feeling uncomfortable with AAP’s work culture and thus decided to leave the party. He joined BJP and thanked CM Dhami and BJP state president Kaushik.
Resignation from all responsibilities and primary membership of Aam Aadmi Party. pic.twitter.com/Tr8tGbMHAV
— Deepak Bali (@TheDeepakBali) 13 June 2022
Stating that the BJP would “gain strength” by Bali joining the party, Dhami claimed that the AAP is now “absolutely clear” from Uttarakhand.
“Before starting my political career, I worked in social and professional life,” Bali said in his resignation letter. “After joining AAP, I fulfilled all the duties given to me. Today I am joining BJP. Young and visionary Pushkar Singh Dhami has the leadership of the state and the way he took decisions in his first term, I used to think that we will not be able to stop the BJP. The way he won the Champawat by-election by getting more than 92 percent votes, nothing is left to say.
“The way Dhami ji is working for the welfare of the state, it was bothering me that I would do politics of protest. [him] Simply because I am in a different political party. As far as you are concerned, I am deeply hurt by an incident that happened four days ago. A video of an incident in Pakistan went viral, in which a Hindu woman’s hair was pulled and a Hanuman temple was vandalized. The silence of your top leadership bothered me. And then I realized that mere naming of nationalism is not enough.”
Impressed by the working style of the BJP, I welcome and congratulate the outgoing state president of Aam Aadmi Party Shri Deepak Bali ji for joining the Bharatiya Janata Party today.@BJP4India @BJP4UK pic.twitter.com/NBWhVK4fgg
— Pushkar Singh Dhami (@pushkardhami) 14 June 2022
Dhami welcomed Bali to the BJP and said he was known as a bright student leader, a successful businessman and a politician. “Even though he was in AAP, nationalism was always in his ideology. He saw your real face from inside. Saddened by this, he said goodbye to AAP and joined BJP inspired by the policies of the Prime Minister. Narendra Modi,
With the departure of Bali, your problems in Uttarakhand seem to be increasing. Presently, the party has neither a face for the masses nor a leader to head the state unit, and thus face an uphill task to re-establish itself in the hill state. .
In the recent assembly elections, AAP failed to convince people about the ‘Delhi model of good governance’ and the promise of free water and electricity in the state. After the BJP (44.33%), the Congress (37.91%), and the BSP (4.82%), the party failed to win a single seat and garnered only 3.31 percent of the vote – ranking fourth in terms of vote share. Even the party’s CM candidate Kothiyal, who contested from Gangotri seat, got only 6,161 votes behind BJP’s Suresh Singh Chouhan (29,619 votes) and Congress’s Vijaypal Singh Sajwan (21,590 votes).