Congress candidate from Northeast Delhi's Lok Sabha constituency and former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) scholar Kanhaiya Kumar met Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's wife Sunita Kejriwal. After the meeting, Kumar noted that it was a “courtesy meeting”. Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Congress are allies in the opposition INDIA bloc for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
“Under the kind of dictatorship that is going on in the country, anyone can be put in jail. I met her (Sunita Kejriwal) and said we are together in this fight against dictatorship. We are not fighting elections on four seats, but on 543 seats. Congress candidate Kanhaiya Kumar told reporters after meeting Sunita Kejriwal.
“Even in Delhi, we, as INDIA alliance, are contesting elections on seven seats. We are fighting for the people of Delhi, not for any party or candidate,” Kumar added.
The meeting between Congress's Kanhaiya Kumar and Sunita Kejriwal comes on a day when the two Congress leaders and observers for two Lok Sabha seats in Delhi, Neeraj Basoya and Naseeb Singh, have resigned from the party despite a series of high-profile dismissed. go to the big old party.
Both Neeraj Basoya and Naseeb Singh, in separate letters to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, blamed the Congress's AAP alliance for their resignations. Neeraj Basoya is a former MLA and party observer for the West Delhi parliamentary seat.
Further, Naseeb Singh, former MLA and party observer for North West Delhi, expressed his anguish over the appointment of Davinder Yadav as Delhi Congress chief.
Sunita Kejriwal along with jailed husband Arvind Kejriwal have been named as AAP's star campaigners for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
On Monday, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's wife Sunita and AAP minister Atishi met the jailed leader in Tihar. After the meeting, Atishi said CM Kejriwal has directed that the city's residents will not face water crisis during the heat wave.
Voting in all seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi is scheduled for May 25, during the sixth phase of the ongoing general elections. The counting for all seven phases is scheduled for June 4.
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Published: May 1, 2024 2:35 PM IST