The AAP had suggested a formula of three seats each for AAP and Congress and leaving one seat for an independent candidate, possibly former union minister Yashwant Sinha
Unwilling to overcome their misgivings about Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the Congress party’s Delhi unit on Tuesday rejected the possibility of a pre-poll alliance with the AAP for the seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi.
The BJP had won all the seven seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, and a split in vote between the Congress and AAP could repeat the result in the city-state. The BJP has a consistent 33 to 36 per cent vote share in Delhi.
As in the case with West Bengal, where the local Congress unit has opposed any truck with the Trinamool Congress, party President Rahul Gandhi bowed to the wishes of the party’s Delhi unit that decided against an alliance with the AAP. Senior leaders of the Congress party’s Delhi unit, including Delhi unit chief Sheila Dikshit, met the Congress chief for nearly two hours in the morning. They conveyed to him their opposition to an alliance with AAP. “We have unanimously decided that we will not have an alliance with the AAP and we will contest alone and will emerge stronger,” Dikshit said.
Kejriwal accused the Congress of helping the BJP. “At a time when the whole country wants to defeat Modi- Shah duo, Cong is helping BJP by splitting the anti-BJP vote. Rumours are that the Congress has some secret understanding with the BJP. Delhi is ready to fight against a Cong-BJP alliance. People will defeat this unholy alliance,” Kejriwal tweeted…
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