AAP says it will go only in Delhi elections – Times of India

NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party has made it clear that there will be no alliance with the Congress Delhi Municipal Council Elections scheduled for early next year. This comes especially after the party drew a blank in Haryana and forfeited its stake in 87 of the 88 seats it contested.
The Arvind Kejriwal-led party on Wednesday turned its guns on the Congress, saying the latter had paid the price for its “overconfidence and arrogance” and alleging that an alliance would have contributed to the BJP’s defeat.
Both Congress and MONKEY had failed to reach an agreement seat sharing resulting in the collapse of the alliance talks.
As the AAP intensified its attack on the Congress, which has failed to win a single seat (out of 70) in Delhi since 2015, the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president said Devender Yadav claimed that “Congress is on a strong wicket to contest the Assembly elections in Delhi on its own”.
Meanwhile, AAP’s chief national spokesperson Priyanka Kakkar said the party will fight the Delhi polls alone against an ‘arrogant Congress’ and a ‘corrupt BJP’.
AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh, during a press conference, took a jibe at Congress and said in Lok Sabha polls, Congress got 47% votes because there was an alliance in Haryana.
Had an alliance been forged before the parliamentary elections, the outcome would have been different, he added. The Congress lost to the BJP on Tuesday as it could get only 37 seats in the 90-member assembly.
“During parliamentary elections, we kept telling them to form an alliance, but they didn’t,” Singh alleged.
“Congress lost Haryana because of its overconfidence,” Kakkar said. She pointed out that while Congress has zero seats in Delhi, AAP gave it three Lok Sabha constituencies to contest earlier this year. She further said that Congress did not feel it necessary to bring along its ally.