NEW DELHI: The India Alliance, which came into existence before the Lok Sabha elections, does not seem to have much longevity now. The alliance had performed well in the Lok Sabha elections. But, the tussle between the alliance partners in the subsequent assembly elections has raised questions on its future.
Almost all the major parties of the alliance are angry with the stand of the Congress party. Prominent names in this are West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, former Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray and former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal. Mamata Banerjee has openly expressed her desire to take the reins of the India Alliance in her hands.
Former Bihar CM and RJD supremo Lalu Yadav has also supported Mamata Banerjee’s claim. Now the bugle has been blown for the Delhi Assembly elections. Here the main contest is between AAP and BJP. But, the Congress party has also decided to contest the elections with full force. In such a situation, AAP leaders have demanded to exclude Congress from the India Alliance. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) said the Congress has “crossed all limits”.
“The audacity shown by Ajay Maken has compelled us to demand that the Congress takes action against him within 24 hours. Otherwise, we will approach partners in the India Alliance and demand that the Congress be removed from the block,” AAP MP Sanjay Singh said. If the Congress does not take action against its Delhi leader Ajay Maken, it will ask the parties in the alliance to remove the Congress.
Delhi Chief Minister Atishi and AAP Rajya Sab

ha MP Sanjay Singh today accused the Congress of helping the BJP ahead of the Delhi Assembly elections in February. “The Congress is not doing anything to ensure that the Congress’ actions are going to help the BJP in the elections,” Sanjay Singh said. He alleged that Ajay Maken reads the BJP’s script, makes statements at the behest of the BJP and targets AAP leaders at the behest of the BJP. “Yesterday he crossed all limits and called our leader Arvind Kejriwal a traitor,” Singh said. He said that the Congress or Ajay Maken has never called any BJP leader in Delhi a “traitor”.The major confrontation comes at a time when the AAP and the Congress fought the Lok Sabha elections in Delhi in alliance. During the general election, leaders of both the parties had campaigned for each other’s candidates. However, these efforts failed as the BJP won all the seven seats in the capital. “Arvind Kejriwal had campaigned for Congress candidates in Delhi. He also campaigned for the Congress in Chandigarh. The AAP has repeatedly stood with the Congress on issues in Parliament. And you are calling our leader a traitor, the Youth Congress is filing an FIR against him?”
On the other hand, Chief Minister Atishi said that it is clear from the actions and words of the Congress that it has “allied” with the BJP for the Delhi elections. “Has the Congress ever filed a police complaint against the BJP? No. But they are doing so against AAP leaders.”The Delhi Congress yesterday released a 12-point “white paper” targeting the Aam Aadmi Party and the BJP for mismanagement of pollution, civic amenities and law and order in Delhi.
Speaking to the media, senior Congress leader Ajay Maken said the AAP came to power on the back of an anti-corruption movement but failed to establish a Jan Lokpal in Delhi. “If former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal is to be described in one word here, it would be Farjiwal,” he said. “If there is any king of fraud in the entire country, it is Kejriwal and that is why we have come out with a white paper on the Kejriwal government and the BJP government at the Centre,” Maken said.

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