The BJP has claimed that the INDIA bloc is facing internal differences, after several leaders skipped the alliance’s meeting held in New Delhi today.

Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, senior party leader and Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said leaders of several parties, including the DMK, Samajwadi Party and Aam Aadmi Party, did not attend the meeting. Mr. Chouhan alleged that the marches proposed by the INDIA bloc were not aimed at protecting democracy, but at protecting the political interests of the Congress and its alliance partners. He also claimed that leaders of the INDIA bloc and the Congress were not willing to accept Rahul Gandhi as their leader..