Alliance with Cong not possible in Delhi: AAP

Tribune News Service 

New Delhi, April 20 

The Aam Aadmi Party today said an alliance just in Delhi was not possible after the Congress refused to have a tie-up anywhere else.

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said giving three seats to the Congress in the national capital would mean “giving three seats to the BJP”, when asked his opinion on the 4:3 seat sharing formula proposed by the Congress.

He said the Congress first proposed 6:3:1 seat sharing to AAP in Haryana — six seats for Congress, three for Janayak Janata Party and one seat for AAP. “Our decision to form an alliance with the Congress was to stop the Modi-Shah duo,” he said.

“The Congress has zero presence in Delhi even then they want nearly half of the seats. We have 20 MLAs and four MPs in Punjab then why can an alliance not be formed with use,” Sisodia said.

Senior party leader Sanjay Singh said they agreed to the seat sharing arrangements porposed by the Congress, but the party backtracked. “The Congress refused and said they can't give more than two seats to the JJP and proposed 7:2:1 formula in Haryana," said he. However, sources say though the possibility an alliance has been closed in Haryana, AAP is still open to alliance in the national capital with 5:2 seat ratio.