Avadh Ojha quits politics, AAP reacts with 'not a short term project' jab

Avadh Ojha

Avadh Ojha, a civil services exam trainer who fought the previous Delhi assembly polls on the AAP ticket, has announced “retirement” from politics.

In his post on X in Hindi, Avadh Ojha, who is a social media celebrity, shared “a heartfelt thank you” to Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, Sanjay Singh, “all AAP office-bearers, workers, leaders etc", as per a PTI report.

In the post, about 10 months after he lost to the BJP candidate in the Patparganj assembly constituency, Ojha called AAP boss Arvind Kejriwal “a very great leader”. But Ojha got a sharp retort from AAP's Somnath Bharti.

Ojha's announcement came just days after he expressed his desire to “retire from politics” in an interview. He also said he won’t join any other party and will return to his teaching career, the field that made him a popular figure among civil service aspirants.

Reacting to his post on X, Somnath Bharti wrote: “I have personal regard for you… but politics is not a short term project,” Bharti wrote to Ojha.

“A person of your maturity and prominence should have weighed options before stepping into politics and that too with AAP,” he further remarked.

Bharti, who is a former MLA from Malviya Nagar, also noted that others “who have worked hard since the beginning” could have been given the ticket from Patparganj, "but the party gave you that opportunity, believing that you would work with us irrespective of the electoral results".