New Delhi: The Congress on Tuesday appeared extending an olive branch to AAP to form government in Delhi. “A number of senior leaders of Delhi are of the opinion that we should give unconditional support to AAP to form a government. They believe that we should extend outside support to it. But we are talking to MLAs from the state. Once we take their opinion, we will apprise the party high command about it,” AICC general secretary in-charge for Delhi, Shakeel Ahmed said.
A known detractor of Kejriwal, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh has termed AAP’s victory as “something good for the electoral politics of democratic India”.
“It strengthens people’s belief in democracy, which they were fast losing.In fact, I was the first person to request Arvind Kejriwal that he should gather courage and participate in electoral politics if he wants to enact Jan Lokpal. I was also the first one, who complimented him when he formed AAP,” Singh said.
Shinde puts Delhi onus on BJP
Two days after the elections threw a hung verdict in Delhi, there was no breakthrough in formation of a government with both BJP and Aam Aadmi Party refusing to budge from their rigid stand of sitting in the opposition and saying that they would prefer polls to end the logjam.
In a meeting, senior BJP leaders told its 31 newly-elected MLAs to get ready for elections the in next few months while AAP’s Arvind Kejriwal announced that his party was ready to seek people’s mandate again.
BJP’s CM candidate Harsh Vardhan said the party did not have the numbers and that it was ready to face elections. “We don’t have enough numbers to form a stable government. We are ready to fight the election once again, if such a situation arises,” he said.
As the logjam continued, Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde said the onus lies with the BJP as the single largest party followed by Aam Aadmi Party to form the new government. He said the Centre will not interfere in the logjam and will “wait and watch’’ till the Delhi Lieutenant Governor intervenes in the matter.
