As per this Jagran Report, Aam Aadmi Party’s Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh, addressing party workers in Khanna (Ludhiana), said that the party might decide to join hands with the Congress in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. He also added that while the Congress had failed in Punjab, it might be necessary to join hands with Congress and other parties to stop Narendra Modi and the BJP from being victorious in 2019. This statement made by a prominent member of the party perhaps reveals the true colors of AAP.
AAP was formed after the India Against Corruption movement in 2011. The IAC led by Anna Hazare, supposedly began with the intention of bringing the unjust and scam-ridden politics of the then ruling Congress party to trial and passing the Jan Lokpal bill. Arvind Kejriwal, riding on his new found publicity, jumped in the fray for the Delhi assembly elections of 2013. The election was fought by Arvind Kejriwal against the Congress government in Delhi led by Sheila Dikshit. When BJP refused to form the government in Delhi following a hung assembly, it was Kejriwal who despite swearing on the lives of his children against it, joined forces with the Congress to form a government in Delhi. The infamous 49 day government soon fell, Kejriwal resigned and the subsequent elections gave him an outright majority. And with this, all his promises to file charges and prosecute the alleged scamsters of the Congress party vanished. The accusations stopped, never to be mentioned again.
AAP’s soft approach towards the Congress was repeated in the 2014 Loks Sabha elections, with Kejriwal using all his might and power to undermine the BJP and Narendra Modi.
At the same time, he was almost silent about the Congress and Rahul Gandhi. He stood exposed the moment he decided to contest elections against Narendra Modi from Varanasi. This favoritism shown by the party leader, subtly hinted at how AAP was going to function in the coming years. And this is not all, in every subsequent election, the verbal attacks on BJP members worsened. While Congress was usually left alone, many believe they even fielded weak candidates against the Congress in some areas.
With the 2019 elections fast approaching and BJP’s recent wins in state elections across the country, AAP has revealed its true identity to the public. This statement by Sanjay Singh comes across as an acceptance of the AAP only being a helper to the Congress. He might be the first one to acknowledge it in public, but this has been the undertone of AAP’s ideology and practice all through the years. All the verbal battles and accusations against the BJP seem to make sense now, as the pattern reveals itself.
With this information now out in the open, it will be interesting to see how the public will react to AAP in the upcoming elections. Will it reject INC and AAP alike, or will it fail to see the true colours of AAP?