In a matter of couple of hours, a meeting of Opposition parties in Patna that began on a convivial note was reduced to a war of words between the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), according to people who were part of the meeting.
Delhi Chief Minister and AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal insisted that the Congress make its stand on an Ordinance passed by the Centre public after the meeting. The Congress refused to accede to Mr. Kejriwal’s demand. Instead, Mr. Kejriwal found himself isolated with no Opposition party leader backing him.
After the meeting, the AAP said it would be “difficult” to be part of such meetings in future in which the Congress was a part, until the Congress agreed that all its members in the Rajya Sabha would oppose the Union government’s Ordinance.
