NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party has made it clear that there will be no alliance with Congress in Delhi assembly polls slated for early next year. Notably, this comes after the party drew a blank in Haryana and forfeited its deposit in 87 of the 88 seats it contested.
The Arvind Kejriwal-led party trained its guns on Congress on Wednesday saying the latter had paid the price for its “overconfidence and arrogance” and claimed that an alliance would have helped defeat BJP.
Both Congress and AAP had failed to reach a consensus on seat-sharing resulting in failure of alliance talks.
As AAP stepped up its attack on Congress, which failed to win a single seat (out of 70) in Delhi since 2015, Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president Devender Yadav claimed that “Congress is on a strong wicket to contest the Delhi assembly elections on its own”.
Meanwhile, AAP’s chief national spokesperson Priyanka Kakkar said that the party will be fighting Delhi polls alone against an “arrogant Congress” and a “corrupt BJP”.
AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh in a press conference took a dig at Congress saying in Lok Sabha polls, because there was an alliance in Haryana, Congress got 47% votes.
If an alliance would have happened for assembly polls, the outcome would have been different, he added. Congress lost to BJP on Tuesday as it could bag only 37 seats in the 90-member assembly.
“For assembly polls, we kept telling them to do an alliance but they did not do it,” Singh alleged.
“Congress has lost Haryana because of its over confidence,” Kakkar said. She pointed out that even though Congress has zero assembly seats in Delhi, AAP gave it three Lok Sabha constituencies to contest earlier this year. She further said that Congress did not feel it was necessary to take its ally along with them.