AAP says alliance talks with Congress in Delhi failed
Manish Sisodia (R) with Sanjay Singh during the AAP news conference.
New Delhi: After a monthlong discussion over the possibility of alliance between the AAP and the Congress in Delhi for the Lok Sabha election, the Aam Aadmi Party reiterated that the party had tried everything to forge an alliance with the Congress but failed.
In a news conference held by the party in Delhi, on Saturday, the Delhi deputy chief minister, Manish Sisodia, while speaking about the 4:3 seat ratio demand of Congress, said giving three seats to the Congress in the national capital would mean “giving three seats to the BJP”. He said, “If we give three seats to Congress, BJP will win.”
Further speaking about the alliance in Haryana, Sisodia claimed that the Congress first proposed 6:3:1 seat sharing formula to AAP in Haryana where six seats would be for Congress, three for Janayak Janata Party and one seat for AAP. Sisodia said, “Our decision to form an alliance with the Congress was to stop the (Narendra) Modi-(Amit) Shah duo.”
Sisodia then said, “The Congress doesn’t have a single seat in Delhi, but they are demanding three seats from us. In Punjab, we have 4 MPs and 20 MLAs, yet they are not giving us any seats to contest from the state.” “We are strong in Delhi, while Congress is nowhere close. In Haryana, they denied, even when we offered them seven seats. There is no hope left for a coalition with the Congress now. We have also closed all the negotiations with them. There is no question of seat-sharing with Congress in Delhi,” he said.
मोदी-शाह की जोड़ी को 18 सीटों पर हराने में काँग्रेस की मंशा नहीं !
— AAP (@AamAadmiParty) April 20, 2019
देखें पूरी Press Conference, Part 1: pic.twitter.com/1Tkow719kW
मोदी-शाह की जोड़ी को 18 सीटों पर हराने में काँग्रेस की मंशा नहीं !
— AAP (@AamAadmiParty) April 20, 2019
देखें पूरी Press Conference, Part 2: pic.twitter.com/0s0L5tnEOm
However, sources said even when the possibility of the alliance is closed in Haryana, AAP is still open to an alliance in the national capital with 5:2 formula with five seats for the ruling party in Delhi.
Earlier, on Monday, Congress president Rahul Gandhi tweeted saying an AAP-Congress alliance in Delhi would have “routed the BJP in Delhi”, but “Kejriwal took a U-turn” during talks. Reacting to this, AAP leader and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal accused Gandhi of helping Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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