AAP Confirms Its Attendance For Bengaluru Opposition Meet After Congress’ Change Of Heart

The Aam Aadmi Party will attend a key opposition meeting on Monday in Karnataka's Bengaluru to decide on a united strategy to fight against the BJP for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

AAP has confirmed its Bengaluru attendance after a meeting of its key political committee and hours after the Congress came out in support of the AAP's campaign against a contentious central order that wrested back control of Delhi's bureaucracy.

"The AAP's political affairs committee meeting was held today. Every aspect was discussed in detail and after the meeting was over, I can clearly say this - the ordinance is clearly anti-national," AAP MP Raghav Chadha said, as per NDTV report.

"From Trinamool Congress to the RJD, JD(U), NCP, Samajwadi Party, Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena, all have raised their voice against this anti-national ordinance. We will make every possible effort to defeat it," Raghav was quoted as having said.

He indicated the AAP's decision to attend the opposition meet in Bengaluru was driven by the need for a stronger pushback against the ordinance.

During the earlier Opposition’s mega meet at Bihar’s Patna on June 23, AAP had criticised the Congress as the parties were trying to rally together against PM Narendra Modi’s BJP government. 

After a marathon outreach by Delhi Chief Minister and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal, nearly all opposition parties, except the Congress, had pledged to help his party block the move in Parliament.

The Congress's change of heart came when it expressed support to the AAP against the controversial ordinance.

Chadha welcomed the Congress's support as a "positive development". "Congress announces its unequivocal opposition to the Delhi ordinance. This is a positive development," he tweeted.