Former Union minister within the UPA authorities and former president of the Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) Bharatsinh Solanki mentioned on Wednesday that the Congress had “no objection” if the Aam Aadmi Get together (AAP) have been to increase its assist to it.
Solanki was chatting with the media after addressing a Parivartan Sankalp yatra at Radhanpur in poll-bound Gujarat’s Patan district Wednesday night.
“Be it Shankersinhji (Shankersinh Vaghela), Chhotubhai Vasava (of Bharatiya Tribal Get together), NCP or anybody else, if the Aam Aadmi Get together provides assist to the Congress, we’ll take it. We don’t have any objection…we’ll take assist. Now we have to struggle towards a fascist communal get together just like the BJP which is anti-people. Be it value rise, hooch tragedy, Morbi (bridge collapse)…who will defend the folks from such conditions, we need to take such folks alongside,” Solanki is heard saying in a video clip.
Requested about his remark, Solanki instructed The Indian Specific, “If the Aam Aadmi Get together helps our candidates throughout Gujarat, what’s unsuitable in that?” Solanki, nonetheless, added that he had not spoken on behalf of the Congress get together however as “a person”.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who has been often visiting Gujarat, has been attacking the Congress together with the BJP. In his rallies, Kejriwal has sought votes for AAP, urging folks to not vote for Congress. He has additionally alleged that the BJP and Congress have been collectively and alleged that the explanation BJP has been ruling Gujarat for therefore lengthy was “as a result of Congress was within the Opposition”.