AAP n Congress’s futile ego not to form pre poll understanding in Delhi may prove disastrous in the parliamentary election of 2019

The futile ego of Congress leaders and the Aam Admi Party CM Arvind Kejrival and his cohorts in Delhi against the formation of pre election alliance in the run up to the 2019 general elections will help BJP gain momentum in the parliamentary elections as division of votes between both the anti BJP parties may finally prove advantageous to the saffron party n disastrous to both of them. Sounds irrelevant and rather disturbing that on the one hand the entire non BJP opposition parties at the national level are trying to forge state level alliances before the general election to give a formidable challenge to BJP and in Delhi both the parties viz Congress n AAP are suffering from futile political ego knowing very well that the BJP’s vote bank of 46% remained intact during the last election despites its shameful defeat. Since AAP has been in power in Delhi winning hands down capturing the maximum Congress vote bank last time it is bound to invite a certain percentage of anti incumbency despite its doing well in certain sectors of Health, education, water n electricity.

The Congress party has also improved considerably under Ajay Maken’s leadership n now under Shiela Dikshit’s stewardship who ruled Delhi for 15 long years from 1998 till 2013 finally conceding defeat at the hands of Aam Admi Party born out of Anna Hazaare’s movement against corruption which was built in Delhi with the support of RSS and BJP initially against the then ruling Congress party governments in Delhi and at the centre.

The AAM ADMI PARTY’s national convenor and Delhi CM who’d already started his party’s election campaign in Delhi has catagorically said that the BJP’s vote share of 46% will come down by 10% n has asked the Delhi electorates to vote for AAP so that this ten percent vote bank of BJP comes into AAP’s fold n the party wins at the hustings in 2019 in all the Delhi parliamentary seats.

He had clearly refused for any alliance with the Congress in Delhi forgetting that even if this ten percent vote is divided between Congress n AAP none of these parties will gain politically. It may be recalled that in 2014 the political situation in Delhi was different. The saturation point of Shiela Dikshit’s popularity had crossed limits. The Common Wealth corruption and the Coal scams at the centre plus the 15 years rule of Shiela Dikshit in Delhi compounded by the ten year rule of Congress at the centre had cumulatively turned the Delhi voters against her n Congress resulting in the party’s losing badly first in Delhi n then at the centre.

Had Arvind Kejrival not capitalised the Anna movement n formed AAP in Delhi, it would have been BJP in power not AA in 2014. But the corruption plank of AAP against Congress shifted the entire vote bank of Shiela Dikshit’s party in Delhi to AAP whereas the 46% vote bank of BJP despite losing in Delhi, remained intact. The situation has now turned upside down. After the historic victory of Congress party in three hindi heartland states viz. Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh n Chattisgarh, the people of the country are looking towards Congress party with tremendous hopes n aspirations. If not fully at least partially. Therefore the lowest ebb vote bank, the vote bank of the minority, the dalits, OBC s, lower middle class etc in Delhi that went into AAP’s fold in 2014 is not surely to remain with it fully n as a part of it is bound to return back in Congress party’s fold.

However, Congress party should not think overwhelmned either, as it’s the AAP Congress combine which can do mitacles not both of them separately. What is more distressing to note is that when Ajay Maken was the DPCC (I) president he was the one who opposed the alliance with AAP tooth and nail and it was Shiela Dikshit then who whole heartedly raised her voice favoring the electoral pact with AAP but now after taking over as DPCC(I) president she herself has changed face n is speaking against the electoral pact with AAP. This is disturbing to the political interests of both the parties who are odeologically n politically anti BJP.

In view of this new development the Congress Party as well as the AAM AADMI PARTY should form a pre election alliance before 2019 and fight the Delhi parliamentary election in all the seven seats under seat sharing arrangement, failing which the BJP is bound to be benefitted politically as division of anti BJP votes will render both the party effectless finally giving the advantage to the saffron party.

What’s your take friends?