By PTI
NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday took a potshot on the Congress, saying Rahul Gandhi was “enough” to weaken it, rejecting allegations the AAP was performing as a B-team of the BJP and weakening the Congress.
The Aam Aadmi Party nationwide convenor additionally sought to keep up distance from the continued bid to kind a grand opposition alliance to maintain the BJP at bay within the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
Alliance politics ought to be left to those that are engaged on it, Kejriwal mentioned, including he didn’t perceive it.
The Delhi chief minister was replying to questions at a townhall occasion organised by NDTV.
“Am I needed to weaken the Congress? Isn’t Rahul Gandhi enough,” he quipped when requested to touch upon allegations levelled by political rivals that his AAP was weakening the Congress and performing as a B-team of the BJP to assist the saffron occasion win elections.
On the continued ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ of the Congress, Kejriwal mentioned, “Let them do it. Everyone should do good work. Best of luck (to Congress).”
On efforts being made by opposition leaders, together with his Bihar counterpart and JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar, to kind a grand alliance of non-BJP events forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the Delhi chief minister mentioned India wouldn’t change into the primary nation on the earth “by bringing politicians together”.
India will change into primary on the earth solely with the alliance of 130 crore individuals of the nation, he added.
“I am not against anybody. But I do not understand this politics of alliance. Leave this politics to them,” Kejriwal mentioned.
“If you have to build schools, hospitals, roads or fix electricity-related problems, call me. I will fix the problem as I am an IIT engineer,” he added.
Kejriwal mentioned India may be made primary on the earth inside 5 years if free and high quality schooling was supplied to college students, free and good healthcare companies made accessible to residents and each teen within the nation given a job.
Asked whether or not such issues would occur if the AAP got here to energy on the Centre and he grew to become the prime minister, Kejriwal mentioned, “In a democracy, people take decisions. When all of them come together, they will decide.”
“We have to overhaul the education system, healthcare system and provide employment to every youngster. And this is possible. We have shown by doing this in the past seven years (in Delhi). The country has only been looted and fooled in the past 75 years,” he added.
Meanwhile, CPI(M) basic secretary Sitaram Yechury on Friday mentioned “going to people” is an effective factor, softening his occasion’s critique of the Congress’s “Bharat Jodo Yatra”, whereas asserting that the Left occasion is a part of the trouble to deliver “secular, democratic” outfits within the nation collectively.
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) had earlier lashed out on the Congress’s Bharat Jodo Yatra for stipulating 18 days for Left-ruled Kerala.
Briefing reporters on the selections taken at a recently-concluded politburo assembly of the occasion, Yechury hailed the efforts of leaders equivalent to Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) president Ok Chandrasekhar Rao and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar to unite the opposition events.
He, nevertheless remained ambivalent on the efforts of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
“Every party has the right to chart its on own path. Going to people is a good thing. The AAP (Aam Aadmi Party) is also doing it in its own way,” Yechury mentioned, including that individuals will draw their very own conclusion from the variety of days the Congress has deliberate for the “yatra” in several states.
The CPI(M) chief’s feedback have been in distinction to the occasion’s tweet on September 12, taking a dig on the Congress over its foot march that has stored 18 days for the Left-ruled Kerala and solely two days in BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh.
Yechury lashed out at senior Congress chief Jairam Ramesh, who had dubbed the CPI(M) because the “A team” of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Kerala in response to the Left occasion’s September 12 tweet.
“Kerala has no BJP MLA and the credit goes to the Left parties. As far as team A or B is concerned, you can see what has happened in Goa,” Yechury mentioned.
Eight of the 11 Congress MLAs in Goa, together with former chief minister Digambar Kamat, lately switched sides to affix the BJP.
Yechury mentioned the CPI(M) shall be a part of the efforts to deliver collectively the secular, democratic political events to defend the “Constitution, democracy, democratic rights and civil liberties of people and safeguard the secular, democratic character of the Indian republic”.
“The central committee’s call for an all-India campaign from September 14 to September 24 against the burdens being imposed on people’s livelihood and to safeguard democracy, democratic rights, secularism and the Indian Constitution will be observed in various forms all across the country and will culminate in state-level public meetings and rallies,” he mentioned.
India is going through the best unemployment price within the final 45 years and it was the obligation of the Congress occasion to strengthen the way forward for the youth and produce positivity to the minds of children within the nation, senior Congress chief Rahul Gandhi mentioned on Friday.
Gandhi, who has launched into the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra,’ reached Neendakara in Kollam district at present, the ninth day since he started his foot march on September 7.
In a Facebook submit, Gandhi mentioned he had been assembly many kids throughout the march and was understanding their expectations from the federal government.
If the nation might make use of the youth energy, the nation might develop very quick, he mentioned.
“But today the country has the highest unemployment in the last 45 years, educated youngsters are wandering in search of employment and disappointed. It is our duty and also the need of the time today to strengthen the future of our youth, bring positivity to them.”
After the conclusion of the morning leg of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, Gandhi has been engaged in discussions with cashew staff, entrepreneurs, commerce unions and leaders of RSP and Forward Block, each allies of the Congress occasion.
“I am meeting with many youngsters during our Bharat Jodo trip, understanding their expectations from the government, what kind of help they want from us to make their future bright and how many more possibilities can we create for them,” he mentioned.
Gandhi additionally famous that the aim of the Yatra was to lend an ear to kids, outdated, younger, girls, poor, farmers and tribals and to resolve their issues.
“We are also succeeding, the youth are openly talking to us, walking together. I hope we all will unite our India and make it forward,” he added.
The night leg of the yatra will start at 5 PM from Chavara bus stand and conclude at Karunagapally the place the Bharat Jodo Yatra members will halt for the night time.
The 3,570 kilometres-long foot march began off from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu on September 7 and can conclude in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Bharat Jodo Yatra, which entered Kerala on September 10 night, would traverse by means of the state overlaying 450 km, touching seven districts over a interval of 19 days earlier than getting into Karnataka on October 1.
Gandhi on Friday resumed his occasion’s Bharat Jodo yatra, a 150-day-long foot march, after a day’s relaxation from Polayathodu in Kollam district of Kerala.
Leader of Opposition within the state Assembly, V D Satheesan, AICC basic secretary in control of Organisation, Ok C Venugopal, senior Congress leaders, Ramesh Chennithala, Ok Muraleedharan, RSP chief N Ok Premachandran amongst others have been seen strolling moreover Gandhi.
Senior Congress chief Jairam Ramesh mentioned Gandhi will work together with cashew staff, entrepreneurs, and occasion allies throughout the halt of the yatra at Neendakara within the district.
“After a day of well-earned rest, #BharatJodoYatra resumed from Kollam today at 6:45 am. It’ll cover 13 km this morning and halt at Neendakara on the seashore. Interactions with cashew workers, cashew entrepreneurs, trade union and leaders of RSP & Forward Block in the afternoon,” Ramesh tweeted.
The foot march was launched from Kanyakumari in neighbouring Tamil Nadu on September 7 and can cowl 12 states and two Union territories.
The Bharat Jodo Yatra, which entered Kerala on September 10 night, would traverse by means of the state overlaying 450 km, touching seven districts over a interval of 19 days earlier than getting into Karnataka on October 1.
The yatra will enter Alappuzha on September 17 and go by means of Ernakulam district on September 21 and 22 and attain Thrissur on September 23.
The foot march will traverse by means of Palakkad on September 26 and 27 and enter Malappuram on September 28.
NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday took a potshot on the Congress, saying Rahul Gandhi was “enough” to weaken it, rejecting allegations the AAP was performing as a B-team of the BJP and weakening the Congress.
The Aam Aadmi Party nationwide convenor additionally sought to keep up distance from the continued bid to kind a grand opposition alliance to maintain the BJP at bay within the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
Alliance politics ought to be left to those that are engaged on it, Kejriwal mentioned, including he didn’t perceive it.
The Delhi chief minister was replying to questions at a townhall occasion organised by NDTV.
“Am I needed to weaken the Congress? Isn’t Rahul Gandhi enough,” he quipped when requested to touch upon allegations levelled by political rivals that his AAP was weakening the Congress and performing as a B-team of the BJP to assist the saffron occasion win elections.
On the continued ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ of the Congress, Kejriwal mentioned, “Let them do it. Everyone should do good work. Best of luck (to Congress).”
On efforts being made by opposition leaders, together with his Bihar counterpart and JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar, to kind a grand alliance of non-BJP events forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the Delhi chief minister mentioned India wouldn’t change into the primary nation on the earth “by bringing politicians together”.
India will change into primary on the earth solely with the alliance of 130 crore individuals of the nation, he added.
“I am not against anybody. But I do not understand this politics of alliance. Leave this politics to them,” Kejriwal mentioned.
“If you have to build schools, hospitals, roads or fix electricity-related problems, call me. I will fix the problem as I am an IIT engineer,” he added.
Kejriwal mentioned India may be made primary on the earth inside 5 years if free and high quality schooling was supplied to college students, free and good healthcare companies made accessible to residents and each teen within the nation given a job.
Asked whether or not such issues would occur if the AAP got here to energy on the Centre and he grew to become the prime minister, Kejriwal mentioned, “In a democracy, people take decisions. When all of them come together, they will decide.”
“We have to overhaul the education system, healthcare system and provide employment to every youngster. And this is possible. We have shown by doing this in the past seven years (in Delhi). The country has only been looted and fooled in the past 75 years,” he added.
Meanwhile, CPI(M) basic secretary Sitaram Yechury on Friday mentioned “going to people” is an effective factor, softening his occasion’s critique of the Congress’s “Bharat Jodo Yatra”, whereas asserting that the Left occasion is a part of the trouble to deliver “secular, democratic” outfits within the nation collectively.
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) had earlier lashed out on the Congress’s Bharat Jodo Yatra for stipulating 18 days for Left-ruled Kerala.
Briefing reporters on the selections taken at a recently-concluded politburo assembly of the occasion, Yechury hailed the efforts of leaders equivalent to Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) president Ok Chandrasekhar Rao and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar to unite the opposition events.
He, nevertheless remained ambivalent on the efforts of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
“Every party has the right to chart its on own path. Going to people is a good thing. The AAP (Aam Aadmi Party) is also doing it in its own way,” Yechury mentioned, including that individuals will draw their very own conclusion from the variety of days the Congress has deliberate for the “yatra” in several states.
The CPI(M) chief’s feedback have been in distinction to the occasion’s tweet on September 12, taking a dig on the Congress over its foot march that has stored 18 days for the Left-ruled Kerala and solely two days in BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh.
Yechury lashed out at senior Congress chief Jairam Ramesh, who had dubbed the CPI(M) because the “A team” of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Kerala in response to the Left occasion’s September 12 tweet.
“Kerala has no BJP MLA and the credit goes to the Left parties. As far as team A or B is concerned, you can see what has happened in Goa,” Yechury mentioned.
Eight of the 11 Congress MLAs in Goa, together with former chief minister Digambar Kamat, lately switched sides to affix the BJP.
Yechury mentioned the CPI(M) shall be a part of the efforts to deliver collectively the secular, democratic political events to defend the “Constitution, democracy, democratic rights and civil liberties of people and safeguard the secular, democratic character of the Indian republic”.
“The central committee’s call for an all-India campaign from September 14 to September 24 against the burdens being imposed on people’s livelihood and to safeguard democracy, democratic rights, secularism and the Indian Constitution will be observed in various forms all across the country and will culminate in state-level public meetings and rallies,” he mentioned.
India is going through the best unemployment price within the final 45 years and it was the obligation of the Congress occasion to strengthen the way forward for the youth and produce positivity to the minds of children within the nation, senior Congress chief Rahul Gandhi mentioned on Friday.
Gandhi, who has launched into the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra,’ reached Neendakara in Kollam district at present, the ninth day since he started his foot march on September 7.
In a Facebook submit, Gandhi mentioned he had been assembly many kids throughout the march and was understanding their expectations from the federal government.
If the nation might make use of the youth energy, the nation might develop very quick, he mentioned.
“But today the country has the highest unemployment in the last 45 years, educated youngsters are wandering in search of employment and disappointed. It is our duty and also the need of the time today to strengthen the future of our youth, bring positivity to them.”
After the conclusion of the morning leg of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, Gandhi has been engaged in discussions with cashew staff, entrepreneurs, commerce unions and leaders of RSP and Forward Block, each allies of the Congress occasion.
“I am meeting with many youngsters during our Bharat Jodo trip, understanding their expectations from the government, what kind of help they want from us to make their future bright and how many more possibilities can we create for them,” he mentioned.
Gandhi additionally famous that the aim of the Yatra was to lend an ear to kids, outdated, younger, girls, poor, farmers and tribals and to resolve their issues.
“We are also succeeding, the youth are openly talking to us, walking together. I hope we all will unite our India and make it forward,” he added.
The night leg of the yatra will start at 5 PM from Chavara bus stand and conclude at Karunagapally the place the Bharat Jodo Yatra members will halt for the night time.
The 3,570 kilometres-long foot march began off from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu on September 7 and can conclude in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Bharat Jodo Yatra, which entered Kerala on September 10 night, would traverse by means of the state overlaying 450 km, touching seven districts over a interval of 19 days earlier than getting into Karnataka on October 1.
Gandhi on Friday resumed his occasion’s Bharat Jodo yatra, a 150-day-long foot march, after a day’s relaxation from Polayathodu in Kollam district of Kerala.
Leader of Opposition within the state Assembly, V D Satheesan, AICC basic secretary in control of Organisation, Ok C Venugopal, senior Congress leaders, Ramesh Chennithala, Ok Muraleedharan, RSP chief N Ok Premachandran amongst others have been seen strolling moreover Gandhi.
Senior Congress chief Jairam Ramesh mentioned Gandhi will work together with cashew staff, entrepreneurs, and occasion allies throughout the halt of the yatra at Neendakara within the district.
“After a day of well-earned rest, #BharatJodoYatra resumed from Kollam today at 6:45 am. It’ll cover 13 km this morning and halt at Neendakara on the seashore. Interactions with cashew workers, cashew entrepreneurs, trade union and leaders of RSP & Forward Block in the afternoon,” Ramesh tweeted.
The foot march was launched from Kanyakumari in neighbouring Tamil Nadu on September 7 and can cowl 12 states and two Union territories.
The Bharat Jodo Yatra, which entered Kerala on September 10 night, would traverse by means of the state overlaying 450 km, touching seven districts over a interval of 19 days earlier than getting into Karnataka on October 1.
The yatra will enter Alappuzha on September 17 and go by means of Ernakulam district on September 21 and 22 and attain Thrissur on September 23.
The foot march will traverse by means of Palakkad on September 26 and 27 and enter Malappuram on September 28.
