Congress to go alone in Delhi. No electoral pact with AAP

Due to the obstinate attitude of the leaders of both Congress and AAP there does not seem to be any possibility of electoral understanding in the general election likely to be held in May n June.

Latest reports suggest that the Congress party has taken a unilateral decision of going alone in Delhi n contesting against the BJP n AAP in the forthcoming parliamentary elections.

There were reports that Congress chief Rahul Gandhi had asked Delhi Congress leaders for their advice favouring alliance with Aam Admi Party in Delhi after the former was pressurised by various opposition leaders like Bengal CM Mamata Bannerjee and Sharad Pawar.

But latest news reveal that just today morning after the interaction of Delhi Congress leaders with Rahul Gandhi led by the state president n former chief minister Shiela Dikshit it was unanimously decided to contest singularly in all the seven parliamentary seats of Delhi making the Delhi parliamentary election a three cornered contest.

However, in politics nothing is final and it’s agame of possibilities. According to sources since the AAP Admi Party leadership was adamant on contesting on five seats conceding just two seats to Congress, this may be the major reason for the Congress going alone in Delhi.

However, it was also being said that earlier both the parties had agreed on contesting 3 seats each with the seven seat going to a concensus candidate like Shatrughan Sinha or Yashwant Sinha, both the BJP leaders n former union minister.

It may be recalled that there had been lot of bad mouthing by the senior leaders of AAP n Delhi Congress against each other pertaining to the electoral understanding.

While the AAP had already declared its candidates in all the six seats leaving one for the opposition candidate the Congress’s former Delhi chief Ajay Maken n the current president Shiela Dikshit too were deadly against any tie up with the AAP which had come to power after badly criticizing the then Congress regime of Delhi n the union government of varuious corruption charges such as Coal, 2 G Spectrum n the Common Wealth scams .

Not only this but the Delhi CM had in his campaigns started since the last two months strongly criticized both Congress n BJP, thus annoying the Congress party leaders.

But sources reveal that after the recent air strikes against Jaishe Mohammed camps in Pakistan to avenge the deadliest Pulwama masaccare n safe return of the wing commander Abhinandan to India from Pak’s captivity the political situation has changed in favour of the Modi led NDA government n BJP and as such unification of the anti BJP forces to avoid the splitting of opposition votes has become inevitable.

Therefore Congress chief Rahul Gandhi who too was against the alliance with AAP in Delhi earlier had now favoured formidable pre election alliance with AAP in order to give BJP a strong fight.

But what transpired in the meeting of Congress party to go alone in Delhi unanimously is anybody’s guess particularly at the time when Modi’s popularity graph is going up n the entire country is in a nationalistic fervour/ mood against Pakistan. What’s your take friends?