In an enormous blow to Opposition unity, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) right this moment stated it might ask events within the INDIA alliance to take away Congress from the bloc if the Grand Old Party doesn’t act in opposition to its Delhi chief Ajay Maken.
Delhi Chief Minister Atishi and AAP’s Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh right this moment accused the Congress of serving to the BJP forward of the Delhi Assembly polls due in February. “Congress is doing all the pieces to make sure that the BJP advantages within the election. Ajay Maken reads the BJP script, makes statements on the BJP’s behest, and targets AAP leaders on BJP’s directions. And yesterday, he crossed all limits and known as our chief Arvind Kejriwal anti-nation,” Mr Singh stated.
The Congress or Ajay Maken have by no means known as any BJP chief in Delhi “anti-national”, Mr Singh stated.
The huge face-off comes months after the AAP and Congress contested the Lok Sabha polls in Delhi in alliance. During the final election, leaders of each events had campaigned for one another’s candidates. The efforts, nevertheless, got here to naught as a result of the BJP gained all seven seats within the capital.
“Arvind Kejriwal had campaigned for Congress candidates in Delhi. He campaigned for Congress in Chandigarh too. AAP repeatedly stands with the Congress on points in Parliament. And you might be calling our chief anti-national, Youth Congress is registering FIR in opposition to him?”
Mr Singh then referred to the Haryana Assembly polls and stated the AAP had tried its finest to ally with Congress. “But the Congress disagreed. So we fought the election however didn’t utter an inappropriate phrase for Congress or its leaders. Show us one assertion,” he stated.
The Rajya Sabha MP stated “all limits have been crossed”. “The audacity Ajay Maken has present, I demand that the Congress acts in opposition to him inside 24 hours. Otherwise we are going to method the companions in INDIA alliance and search elimination of Congress from the bloc,” he stated.
Chief Minister Atishi stated the Congress’s actions and phrases make it clear that it has “tied up” with the BJP for the Delhi election. “Has the Congress ever filed a police criticism in opposition to BJP? No. But they’re doing so in opposition to AAP leaders.”
Delhi Congress yesterday launched a 12-point “white paper” concentrating on the AAP and BJP for mismanagement of air pollution, civic amenities and legislation and order in Delhi.
Speaking to the media, senior Congress chief Ajay Maken stated AAP got here to energy using on an anti-corruption motion however has didn’t arrange a Janlokpal in Delhi. “If there may be one phrase to explain former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal right here then it might be Farziwal,” he stated. “If anybody is the king of fraud in the whole nation then it’s Kejriwal and that’s the reason we have now come right here with a white paper on the Kejriwal authorities and likewise on the BJP authorities on the Centre,” Mr Maken added.
AAP, regardless of being a part of the INDIA Opposition bloc, are arch-rivals in Delhi and Punjab. In Delhi, the Arvind Kejriwal-led occasion had unseated Congress Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and ended the Grand Old Party’s 15-year rule within the nationwide capital.