‘Confident of Delhi win’, AAP keeps options, doors open for Congress

“While things volition beryllium wide lone by mid-afternoon connected Saturday, immoderate leaders are successful interaction with Congress leaders. The Congress ran a vitriolic campaign against us, and if they get seats, it volition beryllium astatine our cost. That said, we are each portion of the INDIA bloc, and if required and if the Congress manages to triumph seats, a authorities with extracurricular enactment is not retired of the question,” a enactment insider said.

In their nationalist statements, AAP leaders asserted that the exit polls had again got it incorrect and the enactment would triumph a assured bulk for the 3rd clip successful a enactment successful Delhi, citing inputs from their inputs connected the ground.

After a gathering with candidates, AAP Delhi portion main Gopal Rai said Friday that the enactment volition get implicit 50 seats (it won 67 seats retired of 70 successful 2015, and 62 successful 2020) easy and remained successful the contention successful others.

“All candidates person presented their crushed reports, which bespeak that the AAP is acceptable to triumph implicit 50 seats decisively, with a adjacent contention successful seven-eight seats,” Rai told reporters.

A enactment root added: “There are 45 seats wherever the results are precise wide – either for the AAP oregon the BJP. In the remaining 25 seats, the contention is close. Of these, 10 seats are highly adjacent and tin spell immoderate way. The Congress has a accidental successful two-three of these seats.”

If the Congress does lend enactment to assistance the AAP signifier the government, it won’t beryllium the archetypal time.

In 2013, successful its debut election, the AAP had failed to scope the bulk people of 36, winning 28 seats. The BJP had got 31 seats and the Congress eight. Despite AAP main Arvind Kejriwal having tally a run astatine the halfway of which were incessant attacks against incumbent Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and the Congress authorities successful the Centre and the state, the Congress had offered extracurricular enactment to the AAP to support the BJP retired of power.

That authorities had lasted conscionable 49 days, with Kejriwal abruptly quitting, citing non-introduction of the Jan Lokpal Bill successful the Assembly.

That had near a atrocious sensation successful the Congress’s mouth. And portion the Congress has flirted with the AAP contempt this – including successful the Lok Sabha polls past year, erstwhile the 2 parties had alliances successful Delhi and Haryana, with small success– the section enactment portion resisted immoderate pre-poll tie-up with the AAP this time.