Apna Dal (S) Convenor and Minister of State in Narendra Modi led Central Government Anurpriya Patel on Thursday signal to pullout from BJP led NDA right ahead of Lok Sabha Polls 2019. Anurpriya’s remark came at the time when BJP is expected to lose big in Uttar Pradesh with SP–BSP coming together.
Anupriya Patel who represents Mirzapur Parliamentary Constituency in Lok Sabha said, “We were facing some problems with the BJP and we had shared it with their party’s top leaders. We had given them time till February 20 to resolve the issues but none of the problems were solved. This shows that BJP has no concern for its allies and is not interested in them and hence Apna Dal (S) is now free to choose its own path”
“This only indicates that BJP is not interested to solve any issue, hence we are free to choose our path. We are call meeting of party leadership and a further decision will be taken accordingly’ She added.
Anupriya Patel: Isse yahi prateet hota hai ki BJP ko shikayaton se koi lena dena nahi hai aur samasyaon ke samadhaan mein koi ruchi nahi hai isliye Apna Dal ab swatantra hai, apna rasta chun'ne ke liye. Hamari party ki baithak humne bula li hai party jo tay karegi wo hum karenge. https://t.co/gbTIAZMKk8
— ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) February 21, 2019
Meanwhile, Apna Dal National President Ashish Patel said we are a very much part of NDA as of now and a decision will only be taken in a Party meeting bu the end of this month. He also said that his party (Apna Dal) has no issues with BJP over a seat-sharing issue.
He said, ‘”We are part of NDA. We had some issues with Uttar Pradesh BJP, which we had raised in front of the central leadership. However, no action has been taken in that regard. Today we have decided that a meeting of the core committee of our party will be convened on February, 28 and the future course will be decided,” Patel told ANI.
Patel also added that ‘he wants to see PM Narendra Modi to back in 2019, but for that UP BJP has to change its attitude. If all our demands are fulfilled, we will strongly support NDA in upcoming Lok Sabha Polls 2019′.
On the issue and tussle of his party with Uttar Pradesh Bhartiya Janta Party, Ashish Patel told news agency ANI, ‘We had demanded that our party workers be given positions in different corporations of the state. They have made around 300 such appointments but
none of our workers were given the opportunity.”
However, he asserted that his party is not in talks with any other party for an alliance in upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
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Apna Dal (S) and BJP are facing issues over months on different aspects and the former is not happy with the way the BJP is treating its allies. Earlier, on December 27, Apna Dal (S) had announced that its president Ashish Patel and Union minister Anupriya Patel will skip events led by the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh till their indifferences with the BJP are resolved, a day after the party voiced its frustration over the treatment of smaller NDA allies.
Prior to this, they have raised concern and frustration over the treatment of smaller NDA allies by the BJP.
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