Keeping the possibility of alliance with the Congress alive, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday postponed the filing of nomination of three of its Lok Sabha candidates in Delhi, saying the party is willing to give another chance to the Congress to think about the nation.
AAP’s East Delhi candidate Atishi, Chandini Chowk candidate Pankaj Gupta and North West candidate Guggan Singh were set to file their nominations on Saturday. “But to give a last chance to the Congress to come on the table for holding talks over the alliance, we are postponing these candidates’ nominations from Saturday to Monday,” Gopal Rai said.
The effort was being made “to save the country from the Modi-Shah duo”, he said.
Now these candidates would file their nominations on Monday, along with South Delhi candidate Raghav Chadha, North East Delhi candidate Dilip Pandey and New Delhi candidate Brijesh Goyal, he added.
Sources said the AAP leader Singh has proposed to the Congress that the party would not field its candidate from Chandigarh and give the grand old party outside support in the Union Territory if an alliance is formed in Delhi with the 5:2 seat-sharing formulas, five for the AAP and two for Congress.
The AAP has already declared its candidates in Delhi for all the seven seats after receiving ambiguous response from the grand old party.
The AAP is seeking an alliance in Haryana, Delhi and Chandigarh while the Congress is adamant to tie up only in the national Capital.
On Thursday, the AAP-JJP alliance announced that there is no possibility of a tie-up in Haryana as the JJP said that it could never join hands with the grand old party
In Haryana, the AAP has proposed an alliance in the ratio of 6:3:1 with six seats for Congress, three seats for AAP’s alliance partner in the state Jannayak Janata Party and one seat for itself.
In Delhi, an alliance in the formula of 5:2 has been proposed by the AAP with five seats for the ruling party while the Congress has refused to form an alliance anywhere except in Delhi and that too in a ratio of 4:3.
On Thursday, Balbir Singh Jakhar, the AAP’s candidate from the West Delhi seat, the last of seven candidates announced by the party for Delhi Lok Sabha elections filed his nomination.
