Will AAP, Congress step up to make India bloc's seat-sharing formula a success?
general elections. Alka Lamba had said, “In the three-hour-long meeting, Rahul Gandhi, Kharge ji, KC Venugopal and Deepak Babaria ji were present. We have been asked to prepare for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
It has been decided that we will prepare to contest all seven seats. Seven months are left and all the party workers have been asked to prepare for all seven seats." The statement provoked the Arvind Kejriwal-led party to make an announcement that there was no use in attending the Mumbai I.N.D.I.A bloc meeting. After Alka Lamba’s statement, AAP leader Priyanka Kakkar said, “If Congress has already decided not to form an alliance with us, then it is of no use for us to attend the next 'INDIA' alliance meeting.
Our top leadership will decide whether or not we'll attend the next meeting", beginning a huddle and a clarification. Congress was quick to distance itself from Alka Lamba's comment. “Alka Lamba is a spokesperson but she is not an authorised spokesperson for talking on such important issues.
I have said as an in-charge that there were no such discussions in the meeting today. I refute Alka Lamba's statement," AICC in-charge Delhi Congress Deepak Babaria said. Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP has won Delhi thrice, with a record number of seats in Assembly polls but it didn't prove to be the party the national capital wanted.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won all seven constituencies. The Congress, with limited influence in Delhi, anticipates an improved performance in the national capital, thanks in large part to Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra. Only time will tell which party is willing to make concessions.
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