AAP and Congress Punjab models refuse to share seats: Details
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Just days after the opposition alliance, I.N.D.I.A. handed a decision to combat the 2024 Parliament elections collectively “as far as possible”, leaders of alliance companions AAP and Congress have refused to kind an alliance within the state.
Refuting the potential for an alliance with Congress, AAP chief and Punjab Minister Anmol Gagan Mann categorically said that there can be no alliance with the Congress social gathering within the state. She added that AAP would contest elections on all 13 Lok Sabha seats within the state below its personal image.
Mann mentioned, “The decision at the national level will be made by the high command, but the Aam Aadmi Party will contest on its own symbol in all 13 seats in Punjab. We cannot have any agreement with the Congress.”
Interestingly, a number of Congress leaders within the state additionally vehemently oppose the concept of forging an alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party.
Evidently, on Tuesday (5 September) state management of the Congress social gathering asserted that they’re towards any sort of alliance with the AAP in Punjab for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. They requested the state Congress President Amarinder Singh Raja Warring and the chief of the Opposition, Partap Singh Bajwa, to convey to the social gathering excessive command that they’re towards the alliance.
Remarkably, Bajwa had expressed his robust dissatisfaction with the concept of forming an alliance with AAP. Speaking towards an alliance with AAP, Bajwa mentioned, “Our party workers do not want to be even remotely associated with people who are anti-Punjab.”
Similarly, on the difficulty of state management advising to not kind an alliance with AAP, Raja Warring said that the difficulty can be taken up with the social gathering’s nationwide management. However, he added that the social gathering is making ready to contest all 13 Lok Sabha seats in Punjab.
He mentioned, “There are people who are for it and against it. This is the party’s internal issue; we will have discussions with our leadership. Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi have asked us to prepare to contest all 13 Lok Sabha seats to fight against the government.”
Speaking on the event, Former Punjab Congress Chief Navjot Singh Sidhu claimed that the choice of the social gathering’s excessive command is supreme.
The choice of the social gathering excessive command is supreme . It is for a better trigger,National curiosity has been saved paramount to honour the spirit of the structure and to free the enchained establishments which draw their power from constitutional values. Petty…
— Navjot Singh Sidhu (@sherryontopp) September 6, 2023
Earlier, on the first of September, the opposition alliance handed a decision that they might contest the 2024 Lok Sabha polls collectively “as far as possible“. The alliance claimed that seat-sharing arrangements in states would be concluded at the earliest in a “collaborative spirit of give-and-take.”
However, in lower than every week, each the alliance members within the state have mentioned no to the I.N.D.I. alliance in Punjab, but once more exposing the ‘as far as possible’ caveat within the decision.
