Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convenor and former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Wednesday that his party will go solo in the upcoming Assembly elections in the national capital and there was no possibility of any alliance with the Congress.
Setting aside the murmurs of an alliance between Congress and the AAP, Kejriwal posted on X that his party will be fighting the elections on its own.
Aam Aadmi party will be fighting this election on its own strength in Delhi. There is no possibility of any alliance with congress."
For the past some time there were speculations that the two would be joining together to take on the BJP in Delhi. It was said that the Congress and AAP were in the final stages of an agreement for an alliance.
But, putting the lid on all such rumors, Kejriwal has made it clear that he does not require the hand of Congress.
This is for the first time that Kejriwal has refused to go with the Congress.
He had earlier also said that there would be no alliance with Congress in the Delhi Assembly elections. Congress, too, had announced its decision to contest alone.
Devender Yadav, the chief of the Delhi Pradesh Congress has said the party will contest all 70 seats in the national capital. Despite this, speculations had been doing rounds that the two parties would come together.
But, in the morning post, Kejriwal made it clear that there would not be any alliance between Congress and AAP.
Before 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Kejriwal had ruled out a tie-up with the Congress in Punjab and had announced his party would contest all 13 LS seats on its own.
The two parties failed to reach a seat sharing arrangement for the Haryana assembly polls also.
Kejriwal's AAP has been campaigning aggressively for the polls, which the party is treating as a sort of referendum of the people on it.
On Tuesday, he has announced five guarantees for the autorickshaw drivers of the city. The guarantees consist of a Rs 10 lakh life insurance scheme, Rs 1 lakh help for the marriage of the daughter, Rs 2,500 uniform allowance on Holi and Diwali twice a year, and free coaching to children of auto drivers to prepare them for competitive exams.
The AAP has announced so far 31 candidates for the polls.
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