Amidst parleys between the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Congress for a pre-poll alliance to fight seven Lok Sabha seats, the AAP declared its seventh candidate for West Delhi Lok Sabha seats. AAP insiders said the name of Balbir Singh Jhakhar was announced after the recalcitrant attitude of the Congress leadership in forging an alliance in the National Capital.

Jakhar’s name was announced on Sunday by AAP leadership to contest the prestigious West Delhi seat held by Pravesh Sahib Singh Verma of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Jakhar who is also the president of Dwarka Bar Association won the nomination while names of candidates for the other six seats was announced by the party on March 2. Elections to the seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi will be held on May 12.The results will be declared with the rest of the country on May 23.

AAP’s Delhi Convenor Gopal Rai said the party has waited long enough for an alliance with the Congress but seeing the “irresponsible and indecisive” attitude of the grand old party, the AAP has decided to declare the name of its seventh candidate.

Rai who also hold Development and Labour portfolio in Arvind Kejriwal cabinet, a announced the name of Jakhar.  “The AAP has declared all its seven candidates. We waited for long that all parties would join hands to beat the government but the way the Congress is behaving, irresponsibly, and has been indecisive for the past three months, the AAP has decided to take its movement (for full statehood for Delhi) forward,” Rai said.

Announcing the name of Jakhar, Rai said he has been associated with the AAP since the Jan Lokpal Movement. He was the president of co-ordination committee All Delhi District Court Bar Association.

The other six AAP candidates are Atishi from East Delhi, Guggan Singh from North-West Delhi, Raghav Chadha from South, Dilip Pandey from North-East, Pankaj Gupta from Chandni Chowk and Brijesh Goyal will contest from New Delhi seats.

“AAP will fight the Lok Sabha polls on the issue of full statehood and it is  ‘late now’ for talks on an alliance in Delhi”, Raid had said on last Thursday. Rai went on to say that country was disappointed with the Congress and our internal survey shows seven per cent vote share of the Congress. People feel that the Congress is not serious about Delhi, so the AAP has launched a mega campaign. “The Congress is confused and every one is giving different statements,” Rai said.

Sources said the AAP was in talks with the Congress over seat sharing but both the parties wanted to contest from the same seats due to which a they could not reach a consensus.