{"id":310687,"date":"2019-03-20T04:43:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T04:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310687"},"modified":"2019-03-20T04:43:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T04:43:15","slug":"congress-has-refused-alliance-with-aap-says-delhi-cm-arvind-kejriwal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/congress-has-refused-alliance-with-aap-says-delhi-cm-arvind-kejriwal\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress has refused alliance with AAP, says Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-299341 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/arvind-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/arvind-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/arvind-3-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/arvind-3-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/arvind-3-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/arvind-3.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said the Congress has officially refused to form an alliance with AAP in Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">While Interacting with the media after a public rally in East Delhi, Kejriwal said no talks are going on between the two parties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;As far as I know, the Congress has officially conveyed to us that there will be no alliance. We are not in talks with Congress,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kejriwal further said that the stories in the media about the alliance are planted by the Congress and he has no clue about it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress Delhi unit chief Sheila Dikshit has strongly opposed a tie-up with AAP. She wrote to Congress president Rahul Gandhi that an alliance with Arvind Kejriwal\u2019s AAP for the Lok Sabha polls will hurt the Congress in the long run. But she also said that she would follow whatever the Congress&#8217; high command decides.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, other Delhi Congress leaders wanted the tie-up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">AICC general secretary in-charge of Delhi Congress PC Chacko on Tuesday said that most of the leaders were of the opinion that an alliance would help defeat the BJP.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said the Congress has officially refused to form an alliance with AAP in Delhi. While Interacting with the media after a public rally in East Delhi, Kejriwal said no talks are going on between the two parties. &#8220;As far as I know, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":299341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[304,306,236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310688,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310687\/revisions\/310688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}