Targeting Gandhi family, Kejriwal alleges collusion between Cong & BJP
While the AAP has MLAs in Goa, Gujarat and Kashmir, it is in power only in Punjab after losing the February Assembly polls in Delhi. The biggest challenge for the party now is to remain in power in Punjab, which will go to polls in early 2027.
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Arvind Kejriwal at a press conference on Thursday. (Anil Sharma)Former Delhi Chief Minister and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday alleged a collusion between Congress and BJP, asking why no major leader from the Congress has been arrested in the ongoing National Herald case.
Addressing party MLAs and councillors at the Constitutional Club, Kejriwal said, “People ask why the BJP has sent five of AAP’s top leaders to jail but not a single Congress leader. They shout endlessly about the National Herald case, which I myself read about online. As per facts available online, it looks like an open-and-shut case. Yet despite serious allegations, no one from the Gandhi family has gone to jail, while we are jailed in completely fabricated cases.”
He also claimed that several people had asked him to “compromise” with the BJP but he had refused.
“People are not fools. Today there is widespread talk – some say Mayawati has compromised, some say (Asaduddin) Owaisi has, but most people now say the Congress has compromised… We came into politics for the love of the country and not for compromise. We will keep fighting for the nation. You should never compromise for the sake of party, power, yourself or your family. If I have to compromise, I will compromise for my country,” he added.
While the AAP has MLAs in Goa, Gujarat and Kashmir, it is in power only in Punjab after losing the February Assembly polls in Delhi. The biggest challenge for the party now is to remain in power in Punjab, which will go to polls in early 2027.
In Punjab, the Congress is AAP’s biggest Opposition. Senior party leaders said that Kejriwal’s attack on Congress and the Gandhi family should be seen in this light, alongside the recent rift with the INDIA Bloc.
Kejriwal, meanwhile, also hit out at the BJP government in Delhi. “People are saying that if elections happen today, AAP will win 70 seats. While we were in power, there were no power cuts. I stay in Lutyens’ Delhi and there are at least five power cuts during the day. There are power cuts, private schools have hiked fees, roads are broken, sewers are jammed. They are demolishing jhuggis (slums) and have made life difficult for the poor,” he alleged.
In response, BJP alleged that not even half of AAP’s elected leaders were present in the meeting. “Most AAP MLAs and councillors have been distancing themselves from the party ever since the elections. A political environment has been created in which it’s clear that Kejriwal has lost trust of his party men,” Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva said.
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