AAP for Cong tie-up, but not just for Delhi

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AAP for Cong tie-up, but not just for Delhi

Sunday, 14 April 2019 | Staff Reporter | NEW DELHI

A day after Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) announced its alliance with newly formed Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) for Haryana Lok Sabha elections, senior AAP leader and Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Saturday said his party is still ready to form an alliance with the Congress in Delhi, Haryana and Chandigarh but it would not agree for a tie-up just in the national Capital.

 "We want to form a united Opposition against the BJP and are ready to ignore our differences because right now the priority is to stop the dangerous Modi-Shah duo," said Sisodia. 

Notably, Congress' in-charge for Delhi, PC Chacko, on Friday said "We are still ready (for alliance) if the AAP is willing to have an alliance in Delhi alone. We want to fight the BJP together." However, Chacko contradicted his earlier stand when asked about his party's stand vis-a- vis AAP's demand to forge alliance in Punjab and Haryana also, saying that Congress will go alone in Delhi since the AAP has taken an "impractical stand".

AAP's Rajya Sabha leader Sanjay Singh, who was holding alliance talks with the Congress, said, "Our sincerity to stop the BJP in Haryana is reflected by the fact that we became a junior partner to a four-month-old party (JJP) and agreed to contest only less than half of the seats in the state."Singh said the AAP was eager for an alliance with the Congress in Haryana so that the BJP could be defeated on all the 10 seats.

"That's why we were prepared to give Congress three seats in Delhi. But they refused an alliance," he said.

Singh exuded confidence that the AAP will win all seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi on its own. However, sources said the AAP in a last-ditch attempt may offer a 5-2 seat sharing formula to the Congress in Delhi.

Earlier, the AAP was ready to give three seats to the Congress in Delhi but now it might consider giving it just two seats, the sources added.

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