A day after the Haryana assembly election results, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has said that there will be no alliance with the Congress in Delhi. AAP spokesperson Priyanka Kakkar said that the party will contest the upcoming Delhi assembly elections on the basis of its achievements in the past 10 years. Neither the Congress nor the AAP performed as expected in Haryana.
While the Congress was looking to form the government, AAP was hoping to be the kingmaker. In Haryana, the Congress won only 37 seats whereas the AAP drew a blank despite Arvind Kejriwal's emotive campaign. AAP, which was hoping to get a foothold, could manage to get just 1.
54 per cent of the votes, as per the Election Commission data. "We will contest Delhi elections alone. On one side, it's the overconfident Congress and on the other side, it's the arrogant BJP.
We will contest the election based on what we have done in Delhi in the past 10 years," Kakkar said. The party fought on 89 out of 90 seats on its own after alliance talks with the Congress derailed. Meanwhile, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi said in a tweet that the Congress is analysing the "unexpected" result in Haryana.
The Gandhi scion also claimed that there were 'irregularities' in counting of votes in some assembly constituencies in Haryana, while adding the party would apprise the Election Commission of the same. Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday filed a complaint with the poll body regarding a delay in updating numbers on their websi.
