Congress leaders in Punjab said on Tuesday th♑at they do not want any alliance with the ruling Aam Admi Party ahead of the 2024 general elections days after the last INDIA 𒁏bloc meeting in Mumbai.
Ahead of a meeting of Punjab Congreꦺss leaders in Chandigarh, its chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring said they are preparing to fight all 13 Lok Sabha seats in Punjab.
What did Punjab Congress leaders say?
Warring and leader of the opposition Partap Singh Bajwa held aꦰ series of meetings with Congress district presidents, MLAs, and other leaders to discuss the political situation in the state as we🍷ll as the issue of alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party.
In the meeting, the leaders opposed any alliance wi🐻th th🏅e AAP for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls as they asked Warring and Bajwa to apprise the Congress high command of sentiments of party leaders and workers against any such move, according to party sources.
Besides War🅰ring and Bajwa, the meetiꦉng was attended by several senior leaders including former ministers Brahm Mohindra, Bharat Bhushan Ashu, Sadhu Singh Dharamsot, MLAs Raj Kumar Chabbewal, Vikramjit Singh Chaudhary, Balwinder Singh Dhaliwal, Aruna Chaudhary and MP Mohd Sadiq.
Senior P꧋unjab Congress leaders, including ♚Bajwa, have been stating that there would not be any alliance with the AAP in the state.
Earlier, speaking to reporters, Punjab Cong🅠ress chief Warring said, “We have been told to prepare for fighting all 13 Lok Sabha seats (in Punjab) and we are readying for fighting elections.”
He said the ma๊in opposition party has be൩en raising burning issues of the state against the AAP government.
“Even today, we are fighting on Punjab issues against the AAP government. We have been raising issues of the country and Punjab regularly. We held 'dharnas', demanding compensati✱on for✱ losses caused by floods,” he said.
Amrinder Singh Raja Warring on INDIA alliance
On the INDIA allian🐻ce, Warring said, “When there is a questi🔯on of saving the country and democracy, then we are together.”
“INDIA alliance is for saving democracy. Like minded parties which respect the Constitution have come togeth𝄹er,” he added.
Before t🐼he meeting in Chandigarh, B💝ajwa said that they will apprise the party high command of the feedback of the state unit on the issue of alliance with the AAP in the Congress Working Committee meeting where state unit chiefs and CLP leaders were expected to be called.
Bajwa said thatꦉ the sentiments of the Congress workers were not with the AAP as he accused the Bhagwant Mann government for targeting the party's state leadership and party cadre in t🎉he past one-and-a-half years.
“Sentiments of people are not with them. Congress party's sentiments are not with them ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ(AAP),” said Bajwa.
On September 1, the INDIA bloc in ꧟its Mumbai meeting resolved to contest the 2024 Lok Sabha polls together ꦓ"as far as possible", asserting seat-sharing arrangements in states will be concluded at the earliest in a "collaborative spirit of give-and-take".
The opposition coalition leaders set up a 14-member coordination committee that will act as the highest decision-making body of the alliance and initiate work on seat sharing. It also exuded co🌜nfidence that the new front would easily defeaꦺt the BJP.
Warring cited that in West Bengal, TMC fights polls against CPI and CPM and said in Punjab, the Congress will continue to fight against the AAP.
(With PTI inputs)
