After its efforts for an alliance with Congress failed with humiliation, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is moving away from the Congress and thus Congress- led India bloc. In this regard, AAP national convenor and former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday made a huge announcement for the Delhi Assembly elections to be held early next year.
He said that there will be no alliance in the polls and the AAP will contest alone to retain the NCT government for the third time. Reacting to a question about speculations of the alliance he said, “There will be no alliance in Delhi (for assembly elections).”
It was earlier speculated that in Delhi, the AAP and Congress may join hands against the BJP. AAP and Congress are part of the opposition INDIA bloc and fought the Lok Sabha elections in Delhi together earlier this year. Both parties drew a blank, with the BJP winning all seats.
AAP and Congress had failed to reach a seat-sharing agreement ahead of the Haryana Assembly polls in October despite several rounds of talks. Meanwhile, Kejriwal also hit out at the BJP over the law and order situation in the national capital after he was attacked last night.
He said, “I had this expectation that Amit Shah will take some action after I raised the issue (law & order). But, instead of that, I was being attacked during my padyatra. Liquid was thrown at me, it was harmless, but it could have been harmful.”
Arvind Kejriwal also says, “Yesterday, one of our MLAs was arrested. The crime that he (Naresh Balyan) has committed is that he was the victim of gangsters. He had received calls from gangsters for ransom and threats, one to two years back. He had also complained many times.”
Notably, the incident occurred during Kejriwal’s padyatra in the Greater Kailash area, part of his ongoing public engagement campaign ahead of the upcoming elections. Kejriwal was walking through a crowd of supporters when the attacker attempted to throw a liquid at him.
