NEW DELHI: The Congress on Friday debunked AAP’s claim to break the Opposition unity to oust the BJP from power in the next Lok Sabha polls. Its President Mallikarjun Kharge said, before leaving for Patna for the opposition parties’ conclave that “we all want to fight togetheer against BJP and our agenda is to remove the BJP government. …We will tae a decision on supporting AAP against the Centre’s Ordinance before the Parliament’s monsoon session.”
AAP spokesperson Priyanka Kakkar, however, claimed to have the info that Rahul Gandhi and BJP have done an agreemeen. She asked the Congress to clear its stand against this unconstitutional Ordinance.
Kakkar’s comments came after Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge said on Friday that a decision on supporting the AAP against the Centre’s ordinance would be taken before the next Parliament session.
On Thursday, the AAP threatened to walk out of Friday’s opposition meeting in Bihar’s Patna if the Congress does not “promise its support against the ordinance.”
Last month, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of the Delhi government, granting it power over the national capital’s bureaucracy.
However, to allegedly bypass the verdict, the BJP-led central government brought the ordinance to put bureaucrats above the CM, saying it would check the AAP’s corruption.
Since then, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal has been seeking the opposition parties’ support against the ordinance.
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