People of Delhi saddened by arrest of Kejriwal: Saurabh Bharadwaj
The Delhi minister said the Delhiites want to give a befitting reply to the BJP and the Central government for this through their votes.
Days after the Aam Admi Party (AAP) announced names of party candidates on six of seven seats in Delhi for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, Congress President Rahul Gandhi has on Tuesday reportedly called a meeting of its Delhi leaders to hold discussions on an alliance in Delhi.
“The Congress president has called a meeting, where leaders will chalk out the strategy for the Lok Sabha elections and discuss alliance options,” a party leader was quoted as saying by the Hindustan Times.
According to sources, the party has now offered two seats to the Congress in Delhi and is open for an alliance in Punjab as well.
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Earlier on Friday, a Congress leader had said that party’s central leadership was in the process of persuading those Delhi leaders who had been against forming an alliance with the AAP.
Ending speculations of an alliance with the Congress, the AAP on Saturday announced six candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
Earlier in February, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal while urging the people to not allow votes to be divided, had said the Congress has refused to form an alliance with AAP in Delhi for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
He had also said that if the Congress agrees to the alliance, the Bharatiya Janata Party would lose all the seven Lok Sabha seats in the national capital.
During a meeting of ‘Mahagathbandhan’, leaders at NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s residence last month, Congress president Rahul Gandhi had refused a proposal for an alliance between his party and the AAP, citing opposition from its Delhi unit leaders.
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