New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), on Friday, ruled out any possibility of striking an alliance with the Congress in Delhi, Haryana and Punjab.
AAP leader Gopal Rai said the party was ready to compromise with the Congress as there was a demand that anti-BJP parties should join hands to save the nation.
“We were ready to drink poison. But now, we have decided that AAP will contest on all seats in Delhi, Punjab and Haryana alone and will not have any truck with the Congress,” Rai said.
He admitted that the AAP, just like several other parties, was considering an alliance with the Congress for the sake of the nation.
“Several like-minded parties were coming together and even though not being in favour of Congress, they have decided to join hands. We, too, were ready to think about joining hands to save the nation from the dictatorship of Modi-Shah,” he said.
He said that the statements of Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh and Delhi Congress chief Shiela Dixit, dismissing AAP as inconsequential had put the party off. “We have dropped the idea,” he said.
