In what comes as a sign of a major rift in India’s opposition INDIA bloc, Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) threatened Thursday (Dec 26) to seek Congress’s removal from the alliance if it fails to act against the chief of its Delhi party unit. The AAP also accused the Congress, the country’s main opposition party, of helping the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the upcoming assembly elections in the national capital.
Delhi Chief Minister Atishi and AAP’s Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh said the main agenda of Congress was to help the BJP win elections, accusing its Delhi chief Ajay Maken of labeling AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal as anti-national.
“Congress is doing everything to ensure that the BJP benefits in the election. Ajay Maken reads the BJP script, makes statements at the BJP’s behest, and targets AAP leaders on BJP’s instructions. And yesterday, he crossed all limits and called our leader Arvind Kejriwal anti-national,” Singh said. “The Congress or Ajay Maken have never called any BJP leader in Delhi anti-national,” the AAP MP added.
It should be noted that the AAP and Congress had formed a pre-poll alliance for the Lok Sabha elections earlier this year. However, the coalition was damp and failed to deliver as the BJP swept all the seven parliamentary seats in Delhi.
Singh added that AAP wanted an alliance with Congress in the Haryana assembly elections, but the grand old party did not agree. “But the Congress disagreed. So we fought the election but did not utter an inappropriate word for Congress or its leaders. Show me one statement,” said Singh.
