India, June 8 -- As the INDIA bloc's partners gathered in Delhi on Monday, the Aam Aadmi Party not only stayed away from any new alignment with it, but also sharpened its attack on the Congress, the largest Opposition party that leads the alliance.

AAP leader Somnath Bharti outright declared that the alliance - which the party formally exited in 2025 barring issue-based support thereafter to the wider Opposition - had "no future" so long as the Congress led it. "[Congress] said on one hand that we would fight as an alliance and back each other, but behind the scenes [it] appears to be with the BJP," Bharti said.

The INDIA bloc meeting at the heart of the attack was held in the national capital, but the fight that keeps the two parties e...