Sidhu calls the high command’s decision to form an alliance with AAP “supreme,” despite the Punjab Cong’s objections

Even though the majority of Congress leaders in Punjab seem to be unified in their opposition to a seat-sharing agreement with the current government’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, former state party leader Navjot Singh Sidhu said on Wednesday that the party’s high leadership should have the last say.

“The party high command’s decision is final. In order to uphold the spirit of the constitution and release the institutions that are imprisoned yet take their strength from constitutional ideals, the national interest has been preserved as the top priority. For the sake of preserving our DEMOCRACY, petty perish pump politics stuffed with egotistical entrenched interests should be abandoned. Elections are not fought for the next election, but for the generation that will follow. Live long, India. Sidhu remarked on X, “Jurrega BHARAT.

This declaration was made the day after party officials from the Punjab Congress voiced their objection to the planned electoral alliance with the state’s governing AAP for the state’s 13 Lok Sabha seats at a meeting presided over by state chairman Amarinder Singh Raja Warring. AAP and Congress are both members of the opposition alliance known as INDIA, which was created to compete with the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA).

A day before, Congress officials had said that an alliance with the major challenger AAP would harm the party’s chances in Punjab and demoralize the party’s followers.

According to sources, they believed that the Congress would lose its status as the primary Opposition party as a result of an alliance with the governing party, benefiting both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal).

Party leaders requested Partap Singh Bajwa, leader of the Punjab Congress and leader of the opposition, to bring up the issue with the party high command and convince party leadership against the decision.

AAP leader and Punjab finance minister Harpal Singh Cheema said the party will run in coalition with the Congress in the state’s parliamentary elections “in order to save the country, its democracy, and Constitution” the day before this Congress gathering.

According to Cheema, the INDIA coalition was created to preserve the nation’s democracy and Constitution. “The alliance’s goal is quite ambitious, therefore tiny disputes must be set aside. Our first aim is to preserve the nation, its democracy, and its Constitution, he had previously said.

Cheema responded today to the Punjab Congress’ resistance to the alliance with the AAP by saying that the national leaderships have chosen to run in the polls jointly, thus the state unit’s opinion is meaningless.

We are battling together to prevent the BJP from being successful in its attempts to suppress all opposition in the nation, which is highly hazardous for our democracy, he continued, brushing aside our disagreements.