New Delhi:
Congress chief Ajay Maken stated on Saturday that his social gathering shouldn’t have any alliance with the AAP in Delhi, however left the choice open, saying that is his private view.
Requested whether or not the Congress will lend help to the Arvind Kejriwal-led social gathering, if want be, after the upcoming Delhi Meeting polls, Mr Maken stated, “It’s my private view that there needs to be no alliance with AAP.” “I additionally really feel that there shouldn’t have been any help (from the Congress) to the AAP in 2013 and neither any alliance for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. However that is my private view,” the All India Congress Committee (AICC) treasurer stated, with out talking any additional.
Addressing the primary press convention on the new Congress headquarters at Kotla Highway, Mr Maken stated he stands by his earlier comment that Mr Kejriwal is “anti-national” and the AAP’s strengthening within the capital will solely assist the Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP).
Requested about his “anti-national” comment in opposition to Mr Kejriwal, Mr Maken stated, “I had given my private view and I nonetheless stand by it.” He stated the folks of Delhi suffered because of the Congress’s help to the Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP) in 2013 and its alignment with the Kejriwal-led outfit in 2024.
“When the folks of Delhi suffered, the BJP benefitted. However that is my private view,” Mr Maken stated.
On whether or not the Congress would nonetheless go together with the AAP, he stated, “I really feel that Kejriwal getting prominence in Delhi helps the BJP. To battle the BJP, it is very important have a powerful Congress on the nationwide degree.” Mr Maken stated if a nationwide social gathering just like the Congress just isn’t robust on the nationwide degree, it’s tough to battle in opposition to the BJP.
“By weakening the Congress, one can’t battle the BJP,” he stated.
Noting that Delhi just isn’t an insignificant state politically, Mr Maken stated it’s identified that whichever social gathering wins the Lok Sabha seats within the capital goes on to kind its authorities on the Centre.
“The AAP has did not battle in opposition to the BJP in Delhi,” he claimed.
Mr Maken stated each in Haryana and Delhi, the Congress needed to have an alliance with the AAP, however quickly after his launch from jail, Mr Kejriwal himself introduced that his social gathering will contest all 90 Meeting seats in Haryana, whereas “we had been in a complicated stage of dialogue for an alliance”.
“So far as Delhi is anxious, Mr Kejriwal himself introduced quickly after the Lok Sabha polls that they are going to battle the Delhi election on their very own, he added.
Mr Maken stated when the Congress had its authorities in Delhi, led by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, it gained all of the seven Lok Sabha seats within the capital and stopped the BJP right here. “By stopping them in Delhi, we stopped them from assuming energy on the Centre as whosoever wins Lok Sabha seats in Delhi goes on to kind the national-level authorities,” he famous.
“However ever because the AAP has come to energy in Delhi, the other is occurring and the BJP has been forming the federal government on the Centre because it has gained all of the seven Lok Sabha seats. Then who’s with the BJP?” the Congress chief requested.
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