Amid talks of coalition, Congress workers allegedly vandalise AAP Delhi headquarters

Arvind Kejriwal’s love-hate relationship with the Congress party is flourishing again. According to some media reports, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Grand Old Party are in talks to explore the possibility of a pre-poll alliance for the seven Lok Sabha constituencies of New Delhi. According to PTI, backchannel talks were said to be going on between AAP and the Grand Old Party, even though the two parties have not come up with any official statement for the same.

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On one hand apparently, Arvind Kejriwal appears desperate to enter into an alliance with the Grand Old Party. On the other hand, the Congress party workers have allegedly vandalized the AAP headquarters. A video has surfaced on social media in which the Congress workers can be seen protesting at Delhi AAP’s headquarters against the Delhi government’s resolution on stripping Rajiv Gandhi of Bharat Ratna.

There are some people who said that INC workers had beaten AAP supporters in Rajasthan.

During the 2014 Lok Sabha election campaign, several AAP workers were beaten up in Amethi by Congress workers on the night of 5 January.

The most appalling fact is that Delhi CM as well as AAP national convener, Arvind Kejriwal has maintained a stoic silence on this entire vandalism carried out by Congress supporters on his party’s Delhi headquarter. It goes on to show that Kejriwal doesn’t care about all this because he only seeks to save his declining political career. He can stoop to any low to further his political interests which is clearly evident by his actions in the past. Earlier also AAP had joined hands with the Congress to wrest political power in Delhi. AAP leader maintained the “neither with Congress nor with BJP” attitude but their tilt towards Congress was visible since it came to power in Delhi for the first time. Arvind Kejriwal, riding on his new found publicity, jumped in the fray for the Delhi assembly elections of 2013. The election was contested by Arvind Kejriwal against the Congress government in Delhi led by Sheila Dikshit. When BJP refused to form the government in Delhi following a hung assembly, it was Kejriwal who despite swearing on the lives of his children against going with the INC, joined forces with it to form the government in Delhi.

Earlier also, there were reports indicating that AAP wanted to align with Congress ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. As per a report, Aam Aadmi Party’s Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh, addressing party workers in Khanna (Ludhiana), said that the party might decide to join hands with the Congress in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. He also added that while the Grand Old Party had failed in Punjab, it appears necessary to join hands with Congress and other parties to stop Narendra Modi and the BJP from coming back to power in 2019. This statement made by a prominent member of the party reveals the true colors of AAP. It seems as if they can do anything and everything to stay politically and electorally relevant.