Aam Aadmi Party to support anti-BJP candidates in UP bypolls

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has been quite keen to join the putative anti-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) front. It has influential backers, including arch rivals Trinamool Congress and Communist Party of India (Marxist). Both have tried to reason with the Congress to allow the AAP to be part of the opposition front meetings. But the Congress — primarily because of the resistance from its Delhi unit and also because it blames the AAP leadership for leading a campaign against the UPA-2 government — has not relented. On Tuesday, the AAP announced that it would support the Rashtriya Lok Dal candidate