The Congress reiterated that it will not have any electoral alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi for the upcoming Parliamentary elections in 2019.
Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee chief spokesperson Sharmistha Mukherjee and senior leader Chattar Singh said the party will not have any electoral alliance with the AAP. Their statement came in the backdrop of Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel statement who while addressing a function at the Old Secretariat said that the AAP might have alliance with the Congress in Delhi for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
They said Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president Ajay Maken and AICC in-charge of Delhi PC Chacko had clarified on more than one occasion that the Congress will not have any electoral alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party.
It may be recalled that after a meeting with the District Congress Committee at the DPCC office, Rajiv Bhawan, on June 2, 2018, Ajay Maken had said that the Congress workers and leaders of Delhi do not want any electoral understanding with Kejriwal’sparty in the 2019 Parliamentary elections.
Maken had then said that in “2012-13, during the Anna Hazare movement, with the backing of RSS and BJP, Kejriwal had hoisted the demon of Narendra Modi, to work against the Congress party by raising the bogey of corruption”.
Sharmistha Mukherjee and Shri Chattar Singh said that AAP is “now on a downward journey as people have lost faith and confidence in the party, which was clearly evident from the recent Punjab ZilaParishad and Block Samiti elections”.