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Congress has secret understanding with BJP: Arvind Kejriwal

| @indiablooms | Mar 05, 2019, at 04:27 pm

New Delhi, Mar 5 (IBNS): Amid reports that the Congress party announced that there will be no alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal targeted Rahul Gandhi's party of helping the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by splitting 'anti-BJP votes'.

He even accused the Congress of forming a secret understanding'' with the BJP.

Attacking the grand old party of India, Kejriwal tweeted: "At a time when the whole country wants to defeat Modi- Shah duo, Cong is helping BJP by splitting anti-BJP vote. Rumours r that Cong has some secret understanding wid BJP. Delhi is ready to fight against Cong-BJP alliance. People will defeat this unholy alliance."

Despite giving a call for a grand alliance to defeat the BJP in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, Congress on Tuesday turned down any possibility of a tie-up with the AAP in Delhi, media reports said.  

Delhi Congress chief and former Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit, clearly stated there will be no alliance with AAP in Delhi.

"We will alone defeat BJP. We have been doing this for several years," Dikshit, a former Delhi Chief Minister, told NDTV.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi had a talk with his party's Delhi unit over the possibility of an alliance in the aftermath of the Pulwama terror attack and India's Balakot airstrike.

Media reports also said it was West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo, Mamata Banerjee, urged Congress and AAP to sit across the table and talk over an alliance.

AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal, who is the present Delhi Chief Minister, days ago said it was Congress which did not want any tie-up with his party in Delhi.

"Don't know what Congress wants," Kejriwal had stated.

Kejriwal is a key opposition leader in the anti-BJP front which is aiming to defeat the saffron party in the forthcoming General Elections, which is due to be held by May.

The Congress, meanwhile, is expected to have an alliance with DMK in Tamil Nadu, Janata Dal (Secular) in Karnataka and Left in West Bengal.

The Congress and JD(S) are running a coalition government in Karnataka.

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