Congress chief Alka Lamba’s touch upon Delhi seats within the nationwide election 2024 raised a row
New Delhi:
An announcement by a Congress chief that the celebration has requested its leaders to organize for a contest in all of the seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi subsequent 12 months has raised a row with the Aam Aadmi Get together, a member of the newly fashioned opposition bloc INDIA.
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge and celebration MP Rahul Gandhi held a three-hour assembly with their senior colleagues in Delhi at present, the place they broadly mentioned methods for the massive combat in 2024.
After the assembly, Congress chief Alka Lamba stated they’ve been requested to organize to contest in all of the seven Lok Sabha seats within the nationwide capital.
“We now have been informed the best way to put together for the 2024 election. Earlier than the Delhi assembly, the management has met our individuals in 18 states. It has been determined all Congress leaders will instantly go to work on the seven seats in Delhi to win them,” Ms Lamba informed information company ANI. “Seven months are left. All celebration employees have been requested to organize for all seven seats,” she added.
Quickly, Deepak Babaria, the Congress’s in-charge of Delhi, stepped in to make clear after the AAP expressed “shock” and questioned the necessity for the INDIA bloc if events are going to go solo.
Mr Babaria stated the remark was the chief’s (Ms Lamba’s) opinion and no plan on seat-sharing was mentioned within the assembly. “We didn’t talk about that challenge in at present’s assembly. The dialogue was about the best way to strengthen the celebration in Delhi,” Mr Babaria stated.
AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann are additionally scheduled to go to Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh to marketing campaign for his or her celebration on August 19 and 20.
Earlier than Mr Babaria’s clarification, the AAP appeared to have taken a view on the matter that would have implications on the INDIA alliance.
“The Congress chief’s assertion could be very shocking. After such statements, what’s the justification of the INDIA alliance? Arvind Kejriwal ji ought to resolve on what to do subsequent, which is essential within the curiosity of the nation. A call ought to be taken,” AAP chief Vinay Mishra informed NDTV.
A bit of the Delhi Congress continues to be bitter over how the AAP all of the sudden got here within the scene and decimated the Congress within the 2015 Delhi election. The AAP gained 67 out of the 70 seats and the BJP took 3 seats. The Congress drew a clean then, which ended the celebration’s 15-year rule of Delhi below former Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.
Delhi Congress chief Anil Chaudhary and celebration chief Ajay Maken, who attended the assembly, highlighted doable points linked to an alliance with the AAP, information company PTI reported.
AAP chief and Delhi minister Saurabh Bhardwaj stated nothing is thought in the mean time about any seat-sharing association for the nationwide election subsequent 12 months.
“When all of the events of the INDIA bloc sit and talk about seat-sharing, the nationwide management of all of the events will come to an settlement. Until then nothing is concrete. All that is very far forward,” Mr Bhardwaj stated.