Snub to Congress: INDIA bloc allies SP, TMC to support AAP
INDIA bloc allies Samajwadi Party and Trinamool Congress will back the AAP in Delhi assembly elections, leaving the Congress in isolation within the opposition coalition.
INDIA bloc allies Samajwadi Party and Trinamool Congress will back the AAP in Delhi assembly elections, leaving the Congress in isolation within the opposition coalition.
Aam Aadmi Party National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Monday hit out at Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi, saying that the Congress leader's fight is to save his party, whereas the former Delhi Chief Minister's fight is to "save the country."
Defending the INDIA bloc amid rift among the alliance partners, Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav, said on Sunday that it is “unbroken and stands strong”.
AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday thanked INDIA bloc partners for extending support to the party in the Delhi assembly elections scheduled for February 5.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP, Pratap Chandra Sarangi and Mukesh Rajput, who were injured after a scuffle in Parliament on Thursday, are stable and normal, as per the officials.
The BJP and Congress traded charges over a scuffle between lawmakers of the two parties on the Parliament premises earlier on Thursday.
Earlier this month, Mamata Banerjee had expressed her willingness to lead the anti-BJP coalition if given the opportunity.
BJP leader Pradeep Bhandari said the INDIA bloc leader does not believe in the leadership of Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and claimed that the alliance itself calls Rahul Gandhi a "childish person."
Top INDIA bloc leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, Sharad Pawar, and others, plan to meet EVM skeptic villagers of Markadwadi village in Malshiras taluka of Maharashtra, who were prevented by the police from holding mock repoll using ballot papers and ballot box, sources said here on Friday.
The ethnic clashes that erupted in the state of Manipur on May 3 last year continued unabated. Scores of people have lost their lives while thousands have been forced to take refuge in relief camps.
