AAP wants Congress out of INDIA grouping, issues 24-hour ultimatum

AAP leader Sanjay-Singh

A development that may have significant ramifications for the INDIA grouping, two senior leaders of Aam Aadmi Party- Atishi and Sanjay Singh issued a 24-hour ultimatum to the Congress to take action against its leader Ajay Maken, failing which the AAP will talk to other members of the grouping to remove Congress from the bloc.

AAP's blistering attack on the Congress comes in the wake of Maken's remarks while releasing a 'White Paper' on the 'misdeeds' of both AAP and the BJP. The senior Congress leader went on to add that aligning with AAP has severely dented its prospects in the national capital.

"If there is one word to describe former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal here then it would be Farziwal," he said while releasing the white paper titled "Mauka Mauka, Har Baar Dhoka". "If anyone is the king of fraud in the entire country then it is Kejriwal and that is why we have come here with a white paper on the Kejriwal government and also on the BJP government at the Centre," Maken said.

Mincing no words, Sanjay Singh said his party will ask INDIA bloc parties to remove the Congress from alliance if no action taken against Ajay Maken.

Delhi chief minister Atishi on Wednesday stated that the notices issued in newspapers against welfare schemes announced by the AAP are false, accusing the BJP of pressuring the Delhi government officials to execute this. A complaint, filed by the Youth Congress on Wednesday, was prompted by the notices against the proposed Mahila Samman Yojana and Sanjeevani Yojana.

The massive face-off comes months after the AAP and Congress contested the Lok Sabha polls in Delhi in alliance. During the general election, leaders of both parties had campaigned for each other's candidates. The efforts, however, came to naught because the BJP won all seven seats in the capital.