New Delhi: The Congress has taken a final call of not forging any alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party in Delhi for the coming Lok Sabha elections. Former chief minister and Delhi Congress chief Sheila Dikshit said on Tuesday after a meeting with Congress president Rahul Gandhi that the party had taken a unanimous decision of not forging any alliance with the AAP for the Lok Sabha polls.
The Congress’s move not to stitch together any alliance with the AAP is a major bolt to the newbie party that had promised to support it in Goa and Gujarat where Mr Kejriwal’s outfit had contested seriously in the last Assembly polls but failed to make much impact.
Hitting out at the Congress, Delhi CM and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal claimed there were rumours that the Congress has a “secret understanding” with the BJP and said his party was ready to fight the “unholy alliance”.
“At a time when the whole country wants to defeat the (Narendra) Modi-(Amit) Shah duo, the Congress is helping the BJP by splitting the anti-BJP vote. There are rumours Cong has some secret understanding with the BJP,” Mr Kejriwal tweeted. “Delhi is ready to fight against Cong-BJP alliance. People will defeat this unholy alliance,” he added.
The AAP president had earlier made it clear that if his party and the Congress did not join hands for the Lok Sabha polls, this would definitely split anti-BJP votes in the city.
