Can’t Belief AAP, Kejriwal; Lok Sabha Ballot Tie-Up In Delhi A Mistake: Congress’s Ajay Maken To News18 – News18
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Maken, a longtime critic of AAP, stated that its nationwide convener, Arvind Kejriwal, was a pacesetter who lacked path and beliefs and that the get together being in energy had confirmed detrimental to Delhi and its individuals
Maken stated that the BJP has didn’t act as an efficient opposition in Delhi. File pic/PTI
ajay makenCongress chief Ajay Maken on Thursday stated that allying with the Aam Aadmi Celebration for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections was a mistake. In an interplay with CNN-News18 forward of the Delhi meeting elections scheduled for February 5, Maken, a longtime critic of AAP, stated that its nationwide convener, Arvind Kejriwal, was a pacesetter who lacked path and beliefs and that the get together being in energy had confirmed detrimental to Delhi and its individuals.
“It was a mistake on a part of the Congress to kind an alliance with AAP. It has confirmed detrimental to the individuals of Delhi. Arvind Kejriwal just isn’t a pacesetter who could be trusted,” the Congress MP advised CNN-News18.
The Congress has lengthy believed that AAP has grown in states at its expense in states the place it has historically been in a direct battle with the Bharatiya Janata Celebration. Nevertheless, the meteoric rise of the BJP after the Lok Sabha elections in 2014 step by step noticed efforts to unite opposition events to struggle a typical enemy.
“Kejriwal has no ideology; he’s in reality extra aligned to the ideology of BJP and RSS,” Maken advised CNN-News18.
The formation of the INDIA bloc of opposition events additionally noticed the inclusion of AAP beneath the banner. The Congress and AAP additionally contested the elections in an alliance in Delhi however drew a clean on all 7 seats.
“AAP leaders began to say after the Lok Sabha polls that there will likely be no alliance for the meeting. They began saying it first, so that they broke the alliance,” Maken stated.
The Congress and AAP additionally tied up after the 2013 Delhi meeting elections delivered a hung verdict. Though the federal government lasted solely 40 days, the Congress’s help enabled Kejriwal to kind a authorities. Maken has beforehand attributed this determination by the Congress as the rationale behind its personal decline within the capital.
AAP has been in energy within the nationwide capital for 2 straight phrases and is eying a 3rd time period within the coming elections.
Maken stated that the BJP has didn’t act as an efficient opposition in Delhi.
“I used to be the primary complainant in each Sheeshmahal and liquor rip-off instances,” he stated. “Kejriwal got here to energy to curb corruption. He constructed a whopping Sheeshmahal for himself…Kejriwal just isn’t replying to our allegations;: he’s sitting on 14 CAG reviews of wrongdoing…Once we level out his corruption, he accuses us of studying BJP’s script however he by no means solutions our allegations.”
The Congress was initially reluctant to assault AAP and Kejriwal given their partnership as a part of the INDIA bloc. Nevertheless, the bonhomie quickly gave technique to animosity as AAP joined ranks with the Trinamool Congress and different opposition events to pitch for a non-Congress chief on the helm of the alliance.
“The Congres has to struggle successfully as we gave good governance in Delhi; our employees ask why are we sitting silently and never reclaiming our area…We now have put up robust candidates,” stated Maken. “AAP is irrelevant outdoors Delhi and Punjab, so there will likely be no affect on the INDIA grouping.”
