Congress, SP in principle fighting together on several issues: Surjewala
The Hindu
Congress and SP in principle fighting together on issues like unemployment, corruption and inflation, says Surjewala. DNA for Constitution and nation same, he says
Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala on Thursday said that his party and the Samajwadi Party are in principle fighting together in the country over issues like unemployment, corruption and inflation, and that their DNA for the Constitution and the nation is the same.
Mr. Surjewala’s remarks came amid public discord between the Congress and SP over seat-sharing for next month’s Assembly election in Madhya Pradesh. Both parties are partners in the Opposition bloc INDIA.
“We have been talking to our INDIA alliance friends from time to time. Sometimes, coordination with them [on issues] gets established and sometimes it may not. But in principle and in terms of policies, we are fighting together in the country on the issues of unemployment, inflation and corruption,” he said.
It is like a father having four sons and all of them living in different houses, he claimed. “But their DNA for the Constitution and the country will remain same,” Mr. Surjewala told reporters when asked about SP president Akhilesh Yadav’s public outburst over the Congress not having truck with the latter’s party ahead of election in BJP-governed M.P.
Earlier, Mr. Yadav had said that his party leaders wouldn’t have answered calls from the Congress for a meeting in M.P. had he known that the INDIA grouping was confined to the national level. When asked about it, State Congress president Kamal Nath had told media persons not to talk about “Akhilesh-Vakhilesh”.
Addressing a press conference on Thursday, Mr. Surjewala alleged that Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan cheated the people by first waiving their outstanding electricity bills of up to 1 kilowatt and then recovering the amount by changing the sanctioned load without their consent.
The announcement about the waiver was made by the Chief Minister at a programme in Naugaon in August.
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