Delhi polls: "INDIA bloc stands divided" admits CPI General Secretary D Raja
Jan 10, 2025
New Delhi [India], January 10 : Ahead of Delhi assembly polls, Communist Party of India General Secretary D Raja on Friday admitted that the INDIA bloc "stands divided" post-Lok Sabha election 2024.
The assembly elections in Delhi are scheduled to be held in a single phase on February 5 and the counting of votes will be done on February 8.
Speaking to ANI, Raja said, "It is a fact that Opposition is divided. It is known to people that in Delhi. Assembly election AAP is contesting on its own, Congress is contesting on its own, Left parties are contesting wherever they are capable of putting up a fight and among other parties, certain parties have declared support to AAP. So, it is a fact that INDIA bloc stands divided."
Raja emphasised on Left parties' objective to unite secular and democratic parties to put a "strong" fight against the BJP.
"As far as Left parties are concerned, since the first meeting which was held in Patna, we have been pursuing the political line that our primary objective must be to defeat BJP. Our whole effort should be to unite the secular, democratic parties at all levels. But it doesn't happen. But the Left will pursue how to unite the secular, democratic parties, how to put up a strong, collective fight to ensure the defeat of BJP wherever it is necessary" he told ANI
As rift in the INDIA bloc came to the fore first in the Parliament's Winter Session and now in the Delhi Assembly polls, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav recently said that the Opposition grand alliance was meant only for the Lok Sabha Elections.
"It was already decided that the INDI Alliance was for Lok Sabha polls only," Tejashwi told reporters when asked about his remarks on AAP and Congress contesting Delhi polls separately.
Meanwhile, AAP Chief Arvind Kejriwal has also said that the Delhi assembly elections will be a direct contest between the AAP and the BJP and not an election of the INDIA bloc
Kejriwal also claimed that Samajwadi Party's chief Akhilesh Yadava and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee have extended their support to AAP for the Assembly election.
"Delhi assembly election is between AAP and the BJP. It is not the election of the INDIA alliance. I wholeheartedly express my gratitude to all those parties for supporting us. Mamata Banerjee is supporting us. Akhilesh Yadav is supporting us. I have learnt through media that the (Uddhav) Thackeray ji's party is supporting us," Kejriwal said.
