Received No Invite For Opposition Meet, Claims AAP

New Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party right this moment stated they’ve acquired no invitation for right this moment’s mega opposition assembly — a declare leaders within the Congress contested saying they have been initially invited for earlier conferences however they determined to remain away and therefore we didn’t ship any invitation. AAP, Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party and Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party are the three distinguished members of the opposition who will skip the assembly, the place discussions are anticipated to contain a spread of points, together with the Centre’s financial package deal, its dealing with of the coronavirus pandemic and the state of affairs of the migrants.

“The Aam Aadmi Party will not take part in video conference meeting of opposition parties called by Congress President Sonia Gandhi tomorrow,” the occasion’s senior chief Sanjay Singh was quoted as saying by information company ANI this night.

In the previous, all three events which might be skipping the opposition assembly had political points with the Congress.

For AAP, the renewed conflict with the Congress had began forward of final 12 months’s Lok Sabha elections.

Though the opposition was planning a united entrance in opposition to the BJP, talks of seat sharing between AAP and the Congress fell by because the native leaders of the Congress put the occasion’s curiosity within the state elections first.

In the Delhi meeting elections held earlier this 12 months, the Congress was decimated once more. AAP gained 62 of Delhi’s 70 seats, the BJP 8, a shade larger that its 2015 rating of three seats.

Those within the ruling NDA now even declare there’s a slight softness within the three opposition occasion’s strategy in the direction of the BJP.

Over the final years, Arvind Kejriwal, recognized to be an arch critic of the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi had desisted from direct assaults on the Prime Minister.

The Congress sources stated these anticipated to attend tomorrow’s assembly embrace West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, her Maharashtra counterpart Udhav Thackeray and Jharkhand counterpart Hemant Soren, DMK chief MK Stalin, nationalist Congress Party patriarch Sharad Pawar, the Left events and different UPA companions.

Several invitees, together with Ms Banerjee and the Left events had communicated their acceptance early on. For Uddhav Thackeray, whose Shiv Sena was a BJP ally for 35 years, this is able to be the primary assembly with the united opposition.