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AAP quits INDIA, condemning Congress leadership; Will contest independently in Bihar: Sanjay Singh
Sanjay Singh said that the Aam Aadmi Party has left the INDIA alliance. This alliance was limited only to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. AAP had contested the Delhi and Haryana assembly elections independently. Sanjay Singh criticized the Congress-led INDIA for failing. A meeting of INDIA leaders will be held at Mallikarjun Kharge’s residence. This meeting assumes significance in the backdrop of the monsoon session.
New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has officially announced that it has left the INDIA alliance of opposition parties.
Speaking at a meeting, AAP leader and Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh said. “AAP has already made it clear that INDIA was limited only to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. “We contested the Delhi and Haryana assembly elections independently on our own strength. We will also contest the Bihar assembly elections independently. We will not be part of the INDIA alliance. This has been made clear by our leader Arvind Kejriwal. We will play the role of a genuine opposition party in the session,” he said. INDIA under the leadership of Congress has failed. They did not devise a strategy to expand the alliance after the Lok Sabha elections. Sometimes, even allies like SP and Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena also fell out. This did not create unity. Congress should give up its petty mentality,” Sanjay expressed his dissatisfaction. INDIA meeting on Saturday
INDIA leaders will hold an important meeting on Saturday at AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge’s Delhi residence. Sanjay Raut from the Uddhav faction of Shiv Sena and Tejashwi Yadav from the RJD will participate. The meeting assumes significance in view of the start of the monsoon session from July 21.
Punjab and Gujarat will face assembly elections in 2027. AAP hopes to use the success of these by-elections to gain the vote bank of the Congress. In the 2022 Gujarat assembly elections, AAP won five seats and weakened the Congress’s hold, indicating the party’s growing influence in the state, he said.
