Members of the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee were united in calling for the scrapping of the existing Legislative Assembly in Delhi and holding fresh elections in the city.
Speaking on the recent controversies surrounding the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Congress leader Arvinder Singh Lovely said, "The Congress has been very firm about not supporting either the BJP or the AAP. We are involved with neither. One of the parties clearly is a buyer and the other has goods to sell."
Taking a dig at his political rivals, Lovely said, "AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal talks about moral politics but right now he seems suspicious of his own MLAs. As for the BJP, their tactics in politics is now in front of the citizens of Delhi. We had heard of these tactics being used in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh but it has never happened in Delhi. The way the BJP has made the status of politics fall in Delhi, I feel that the citizens if the city will never forgive them."
Lovely also questioned what he called 'diktats' being given by the BJP and the AAP to the Lieutenant Governor, calling it bad for the Constitution of India.
Meanwhile, senior party leader and former minister Haroon Yusuf said, "The stand of the Congress has always been clear and the Congress has always said that elections should take place in the city."
Speaking about the BJP, Yusuf said, "The chal, charitra and chehra (tactics, character and face) of the BJP are now open in front of the people of Delhi."
The Delhi Government was brought under the President's rule after Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had resigned from his post. Recently, Kejriwal made allegations that a member of the BJP had attempted to bribe MLAs of AAP to defect to the BJP, a claim that the BJP strongly denies.
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