Without Cong, UPA will be body without soul, says Sibal
NEW DELHI: A day after TMC chief Mamata Banerjee’s “there is no UPA now” jibe, senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Thursday said without Congress, the UPA will be a body without a soul and asserted that it was time to show opposition unity.
West Bengal Chief Minister Banerjee on Wednesday met NCP supremo Sharad Pawar in Mumbai and called for fighting the BJP unitedly while taking a veiled swipe at the Congress leadership. When asked if she wanted Pawar to be the chairperson of the Congress-led UPA, Banerjee had said, “Three is no UPA now.”
Sibal tweeted, “Without the Congress, UPA will be a body without a soul. Time to show opposition unity.” Meanwhile, stressing that the Congress remains a central pillar for a collective national effort to defeat the BJP, party leader Anand Sharma said that a broad-based understanding among secular, progressive and democratic parties on people’s issues is the need of the hour. “To oppose and defeat the BJP, a broad-based understanding and cooperation among secular, progressive and democratic political parties on people’s issues is the need of hour. That will connect with people’s expectation,” Sharma said on Twitter.