Congress-AAP’s Unity Strongly Needed, Should Have Fought Delhi Polls Together: Amartya Sen
New Delhi: Advocating a “strong need” for unity between the Congress and the Aam Admi Party (AAP), Nobel laureate Professor Amartya Sen said that the two parties should have fought the Delhi elections together with mutually agreed commitments. Speaking to PTI during an exclusive interview at his ancestral home here in West Bengal’s Birbhum district, Sen also said that if secularism in India were to survive, there would not only have to be unity but also agreement on things that had made India an excellent example of pluralism. “I don’t think the result of the Delhi elections should be exaggerated, but it certainly has its significance. And if the AAP had won there, that victory would have carried its own weight,” Sen told PTI. Delving deeper into the reasons behind AAP’s setback, the eminent economist said that one factor is the “lack of unity among those who did not want a Hindutva-oriented government in Delhi”. “If you look at the numbers in many seats, the margin of BJP’s advantage over the AAP was less, sometimes …