Partap Singh Bajwa is Chief of the Opposition in Punjab Meeting
New Delhi:
A day after Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann revealed Aam Aadmi Celebration’s (AAP) plans to go solo in Punjab within the Lok Sabha polls, one of many state’s prime Congress leaders has ’thanked’ the Chief Minister and mentioned that is ”precisely what we wished”.
”That is what the Congress cadre in Punjab wished from the start. There’s a distinction between Punjab and different states. Right here, they (AAP) are within the authorities and we’re the principal opposition. How can each of us get collectively,” Partap Singh Bajwa, Chief of Opposition in Punjab Meeting, advised NDTV in an unique interview.
”If we get collectively, the anti-incumbency vote goes to shift, both to the BJP or to the Akali Dal. How can we relinquish our place? Congress is on the comeback prepare. This fashion, we are going to end our existence. We now have to protect our vote financial institution, and construct on it. That is a lot better for each (Congress and AAP),” he mentioned.
Mr Bajwa mentioned that the seats the AAP and Congress win will stay with the anti-BJP Opposition bloc anyway. ”We’re combating (AAP) within the Vidhan Sabha and out of doors it. Daily, the principle opposition is coming from the Congress. We’re on the streets of Punjab towards them. How do you assume we will sit on the identical stage with them,” he mentioned.
The Congress chief mentioned this isn’t his stand alone. ”Each single Congress employee (feels the identical). Our normal secretary has been holding conferences with Congress staff, block president, district president, MLAs and former MLAs, MPs and former MPs, state occasion presidents. 99.9 per cent of individuals with folded fingers have prompt that we might don’t have anything to do with AAP. ”I wish to thank Mr Mann, he has made our job a bit of simpler. That is precisely what we wished,” he mentioned.
He denied that such statements have been a part of bargaining ways. ”If our votes shift to a different occasion, they will not come again in the course of the 2027 Meeting polls. We now have already seen such experiments in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi. In Delhi, we helped these AAP guys to type their authorities in 2014. Since then, we’re nowhere to be seen. We do not need a comparable state of affairs in Punjab,” he mentioned.
Mr Mann yesterday sparked a buzz by asserting that AAP is engaged on finalising candidates for all 13 Punjab seats. Quickly after, MP and Punjab co-incharge Sandeep Pathak performed down the remarks and mentioned the ultimate resolution was but to be taken. ”This isn’t new. Punjab unit had been saying from the start that they’re able to contesting alone. For those who have a look at the native unit of Congress, they too say that they do not wish to forge an alliance. So, native items have their very own aspirations. The ultimate resolution will probably be taken by the coordination committee, seat-sharing committee and the Excessive Command. Let’s look ahead to it. The earlier it’s achieved, the higher,” he mentioned.
Mr Mann’s remarks had come shortly after the INDIA bloc suffered one other setback in Bengal, with Trinamool Congress supremo ruling out any alliance with the Congress within the state. In Bengal, too, state Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has been against an alliance with the ruling Trinamool in Bengal. The Congress management, nevertheless, has mentioned it can’t think about INDIA bloc with out Ms Banerjee.