Turning down all speculation regarding alliance with the Congress in Delhi, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Gopal Rai on Monday said his party is not in talks with the Congress and it will contest all seven seats in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections on its own.

Rai said AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal will hold a meeting with all State unit chiefs of the party and MLAs (Member of Legislative Assembly) to discuss the strategy for the Lok Sabha polls. “The party is not in talks with the Congress to form an alliance in Delhi and it will contest all the seats on its own,” the AAP leader said.

“Kejriwal would be holding a meeting this evening at his residence to discuss the strategy for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls,” he added.

Delhi Congress Chief Sheila Dikshit announced last week the party will not form an alliance with the AAP in the national capital and contest the Lok Sabha polls alone.

 “AAP volunteers and its frontal organisations protested near Congress headquarters, demanding the party to clear its stand on full statehood to Delhi. Congress people break your silence and say something,” Rai tweeted.

Hitting out at the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) on the issue of full statehood for Delhi, Rai said the AAP will burn the BJP’s manifesto of  the 2013 legislative assembly elections that advocated the demand. “The BJP has been misleading people. It promised full statehood for Delhi in the 2013 elections but did not keep its promise. To protest that, we would be burning the 2013 manifesto of the BJP,” he said.

Meanwhile, AAP volunteers and its frontal organisations took out a march to the Congress office, demanding the party to clear its stand on full statehood for Delhi. They were stopped midway by police as the march violated the model code of conduct.

Rai said they had taken permission from the police for the march but were unable to get the Election Commission’s nod and had been trying for it since morning.

Earlier in Wednesday, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal wrote a letter to Delhi people on full statehood demand. In his letter to Delhiites, the AAP supremo has charged the Congress and BJP of betraying people on full statehood. He has urged them to vote for the AAP in Lok Sabha polls so that full statehood could be achieved.

The ruling  AAP has already launched its mega campaign with ‘Full Statehood’ as its central theme for upcoming Lok Sabha polls. The party had also protested near BJP headquarters on the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Marg on Sunday, demanding the party to clear its stand on full statehood to Delhi.