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‘INDIA Bloc For Lok Sabha Polls Solely’: Tejashwi As Congress-AAP Half Methods In Delhi Polls, BJP Reacts – News18
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Congress and AAP are contesting the Delhi Meeting polls on their very own. AAP has to this point gained backing of two INDIA bloc events, leaving Congress remoted.
Rahul Gandhi and Tejashwi Yadav (PTI File Picture)
As rift within the INDIA bloc got here to the fore first within the Parliament Winter Session and now within the Delhi Meeting polls, RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav mentioned on Wednesday that the Opposition grand alliance was meant just for the Lok Sabha Elections.
“It was already determined from earlier than that the INDI Alliance was for Lok Sabha polls solely,” Tejashwi advised reporters when requested about his remarks on AAP and Congress contesting Delhi polls individually.
His remarks got here within the wake of conflicts inside the INDIA bloc after RJD chief Lalu Yadav backed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s willingness to steer the Opposition alliance as an alternative of Congress leaders.
Rift In INDIA Bloc
Divisions within the INDIA bloc have come to the fore on quite a few events for the reason that conclusion of Lok Sabha polls in June final 12 months. Notably, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had, within the parliamentary polls marketing campaign, predicted that the INDIA bloc would “disintegrate” after outcomes had been introduced on June 4, 2024.
Throughout the Winter Session of the Parliament, TMC and Samajwadi Social gathering averted collaborating within the protests led by Congress on the advanced towards the Centre. The TMC has pitched Mamata Banerjee because the chief of the bloc, gaining help from a number of events and barring Congress.
Within the upcoming Delhi Meeting polls, AAP and Congress introduced to go solo and never forge any alliance. Their alliance talks didn’t materialise in Haryana the place the BJP returned to energy for third time period final 12 months.
Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Social gathering and Mamata-led TMC have expressed their help for the AAP in Delhi, leaving Congress, which hopes to steer the INDIA bloc, remoted.
Delhi Meeting Elections On February 5
The 70-member Delhi Meeting elections are scheduled for February 5, with vote counting slated for February 8. The nationwide capital is ready to witness a three-way contest among the many Aam Aadmi Social gathering (AAP), Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP), and Congress.
