Delhi Elections 2025: TMC, Samajwadi Celebration To Marketing campaign For AAP; Congress Left Out – News18
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Another member of the bloc, together with the Nationalist Congress Celebration (SP) and Shiv Sena (UBT), have additionally prolonged their assist to AAP for the Delhi polls
The transfer displays additional alienation of the Congress inside the opposition bloc it led throughout final 12 months’s Lok Sabha polls. (PTI file photograph)
With a number of INDIA bloc events backing the Aam Aadmi Celebration for the February 5 Meeting elections in Delhi, Trinamool Congress and Samajwadi Celebration leaders are set to marketing campaign for the Arvind Kejriwal-led outfit, leaving apart the Congress, the most important constituent of the opposition bloc.
Shaped forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls to problem the Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP), the INDIA bloc contains the Congress, Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP), Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Samajwadi Celebration (SP) as its key constituents, amongst others.
Another member of the bloc, together with the Nationalist Congress Celebration (SP) and Shiv Sena (UBT), have additionally prolonged their assist to AAP for the Delhi polls. A supply advised PTI that actor-politician and TMC MP from Asansol, Shatrughan Sinha, will canvass for AAP in at the least three constituencies on February 1-2.
These embody former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s constituency New Delhi, Chief Minister Atishi’s Kalkaji, and Jangpura, the place the get together has fielded its senior chief Manish Sisodia.
Sinha, who hails from Bihar, may mobilise Delhi’s Purvanchali voters, a time period that refers to primarily Bhojpuri-speaking migrants from Bihar and japanese Uttar Pradesh.
The Purvanchalis kind an influential vote-bank within the capital.
The supply added that “one or two extra” TMC leaders could be part of the AAP marketing campaign in Delhi.
The Samajwadi Celebration, which performed a serious function in pushing the BJP again in Uttar Pradesh in final 12 months’s common elections, may also marketing campaign for AAP.
SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, alongside along with his get together MPs, will marketing campaign for the ruling get together candidates forward of the elections, AAP mentioned on Tuesday.
Whereas Yadav will be part of Kejriwal for a roadshow in Rithala on January 30, a number of different SP MPs, together with Iqra Hasan from Kairana, will be part of AAP in its marketing campaign path.
Although Congress is a key constituent of the INDIA bloc of which SP can also be a vital member, the Akhilesh Yadav-led get together will solely marketing campaign for AAP, which is locked in a direct contest with Congress and BJP in Delhi.
The transfer displays additional alienation of the Congress inside the opposition bloc it led throughout final 12 months’s Lok Sabha polls.
The AAP and Congress had unsuccessfully contested 4 and three seats, respectively, in final 12 months’s common elections beneath a seat-sharing pact in Delhi with BJP sweeping all of the seven seats.
Fissures appeared within the opposition alliance final 12 months when a number of events in it backed TMC supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to go the grouping led by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge.
(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and is revealed from a syndicated information company feed – PTI)
