Delhi Election 2025: Just a few weeks in the past, the Aam Aadmi Get together (AAP) mentioned that it will urge the INDIA bloc to oust Congress from the opposition alliance. The AAP’s transfer got here after Congress determined to contest in opposition to it within the Delhi meeting elections. The leaders of the grand previous social gathering have been campaigning aggressively in opposition to the AAP and the Arvind Kejriwal’s social gathering isn’t liking it. The BJP is the principle opposition social gathering within the nationwide capital and with the Congress taking an aggressive strategy, the AAP should battle two rivals.
Now, the INDIA bloc allies have overtly prolonged their assist for AAP, leaving the Congress sulking within the nook. The regional events’ stand is vital because the Congress has been hoping to garner a wider assist base however the identical stays elusive for the social gathering.
Former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal has introduced that West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has prolonged assist to AAP within the Delhi elections. “TMC has introduced assist to AAP in Delhi elections. I’m personally grateful to Mamta Didi. Thanks Didi. You might have at all times supported and blessed us in our good and unhealthy instances,” mentioned Kejriwal on X.
Earlier, Samajwadi Get together chief Akhilesh Yadav had supported Arvind Kejriwal’s social gathering in Delhi elections. Yadav, within the presence of Kejriwal, mentioned that the way in which the AAP authorities labored in Delhi, it ought to get one other likelihood to work.
Amid this, the Congress social gathering’s all-weather ally Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has additionally spelt bother for the grand previous social gathering. Tejashwi Yadav mentioned that the INDIA bloc was fashioned just for the Lok Sabha elections and due to this fact, it isn’t unnatural that there is no such thing as a coordination between Congress and AAP within the Delhi elections.
Nonetheless, Congress might have been ready for this setback because it did not honour the alliance phrases in some earlier polls. Within the Haryana election, the Congress social gathering refused to provide a single seat to the AAP and the Samajwadi Get together. Later, Akhilesh Yadav refused to provide any seat to the Congress within the UP bypolls held for 9 constituencies. Earlier, TMC had refused to ally with the Congress social gathering in West Bengal.
The Congress, which has been just about obliterated in Delhi’s political panorama, faces a frightening problem in its bid to reclaim relevance. The social gathering did not safe even a single seat within the final two meeting elections, with its vote share plummeting to file lows.
The scenario is such that the Congress, which as soon as made Delhi voters undergo from excessive electrical energy and water payments, has not solely promised to proceed the AAP authorities’s present welfare schemes however even went on to suggest extra freebies. On Wednesday, Congress pledged to introduce a “Jeevan Raksha Yojana,” providing free medical insurance protection of as much as Rs 25 lakh, ought to it come to energy in Delhi. Earlier, the social gathering additionally unveiled the ‘Pyaari Didi Yojana,’ promising month-to-month monetary help of Rs 2,500 for ladies if entrusted with governance within the nationwide capital.
