'Spokesperson cannot decide seat-sharing': AAP on Congress' Alka Lamba's 'contesting all seven Delhi seats' remark

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A day after Congress spokesperson Alka Lamba said the party will contest all the seven seats in Delhi in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, upsetting the I.N.D.I.A block member Aam Aadmi Party, AAP Minister Saurabh Bhardwaj on Thursday said the Congress has already given a clarification on the controversy and that any spokesperson cannot decide seat-sharing...

Addressing the reporters on Thursday, he said, Congress has given a clarification on the remarks of their spokespersonA spokesperson of any party cannot take a decision on seat-sharing in any state, this is an important issue and such issues are discussed in the presence of all the parties..

On Wednesday, Lamba prompted outrage in the AAP ranks when she said that they have been asked to prepare to contest in all the seven Lok Sabha seats in the national capital, with AAP leaders insisting that there was no point in having the I.N.D.I.A alliancein such a case...

I refute Alka Lambas statement, said AICC in-charge Delhi Congress Deepak Babaria on Wednesday...

Congress leaders from Delhi had held a meeting with the partys top leadership on Wednesday to review its preparedness for the Lok Sabha elections...

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