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Congress has "more or less" said no to alliance with AAP: Arvind Kejriwal

| @indiablooms | Feb 14, 2019, at 03:51 pm

New Delhi, Feb 14 (IBNS): Delhi chief minister and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal today said Congress had "more or less" said no to an alliance with his party in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.

This comes a day after Opposition leaders from different political parties met at Sharad Pawar's house here  to discuss  pre-poll alliances and a Common Minimum Programme to fight against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

On Thursday, Kejriwal said the Congress had "more or less ruled out the alliance (with AAP)".

“It is important to put up a united front against the BJP in Lok Sabha elections. Anti-BJP vote should not be divided,” Kejriwal said responding to a question whether his party was more interested in the alliance than the Congress.

After the Wednesday evening meeting, Congress president Rahul Gandhi said: "We agreed to start a conversation about a common minimum programme and we have a commitment that we are all going to work together to defeat BJP."

Earlier in Wednesday, West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee said her party would fight together with the Congress and the Left at the national level against the BJP.

"We will fight together with the Congress and the Left at the national level, let us all united together against the Modi government," said Mamata, whose party had ended three-and-a-half decades of Left rule in West Bengal.

"The condition in our country is worse than emergency," she said.

 

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