Aam Aadmi Party's rebel MLA in Delhi, Alka Lamba, met Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday, further fuelling the talks of the AAP leader returning to her parent party ahead of the assembly elections in the national capital.
Lamba, who was originally in the Congress before she joined the AAP, has been at loggerheads with the leadership of the ruling party of Delhi, especially Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. In the wake of this, there has been intense speculation that the MLA from Chandni Chowk may be making a comeback to the Congress.
After her meeting with the Congress president, Lamba said, “Sonia Gandhi is the Congress president and UPA chairperson and she is a big leader who stands for secular ideology. A discussion with her on the current situation in the country was long due. Today, when I got the opportunity, I had a candid discussion on all issues with her. Politics is about talking to each other, and this should go on.”
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Lamba had announced last month that she has decided to quit the AAP. She had also said she would contest the 2020 assembly elections of as an Independent.
Forty-three-year-old Lamba had started her career as a youth leader in the Congress. She was in the grand old party for around 20 years before she switched over to the AAP. The MLA finds herself relegated to the sidelines in the AAP after she raised questions about the way the party was functioning and the manner in which decisions were being taken.
Following the AAP's disastrous performance in the Lok Sabha elections, Lamba had demanded accountability from Kejriwal. Thereafter, she was removed from the AAP's WhatsApp group of its MLAs in the Delhi assembly. She was also conspicuous by her absence during the campaign for the general elections in May.
Earlier, she had taken on the AAP leadership in December 2018, refusing to back a resolution moved by her party in the Vidhan Sabha that sought revocation of the Bharat Ratna awarded to former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.
