Hurdles for the I.N.D.I.A bloc seems to be unending. After Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress announced to go solo in West Bengal in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the Aam Aadmi Party in Punjab have also decided not to forge an alliance and fight all 13 seats.
Announcing the move, CM Bhagwant Mann said, "We fight alone...In Punjab, we will not do anything (alliance with Congress) like that, we have nothing with Congress." AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal has approved Punjab’s unit proposal for the party to contest the general elections alone, sources said. Last week as well, Mann had said that AAP will win all 13 seats in Punjab. However, he dodged the question of whether his party will enter into an alliance with the Congress.
West Bengal Chief Minister and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday announced that her party would go solo in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. She asserted that the TMC would not enter into any alliance in the state.
"I had no discussions with the Congress party. I have always said that in Bengal, we will fight alone. I am not concerned about what will be done in the country but we are a secular party and in Bengal, we will alone defeat BJP." the TMC supremo said, as reported by news agency ANI. "I gave many proposals but they rejected them from the beginning. From then, we have decided to fight the elections in Bengal alone," she added.
