Congress candidate Sandeep Dixit rejected SP-AAP alliance for upcoming Delhi assembly elections
New Delhi: Sandeep Dikshit, the Congress candidate for the New Delhi Assembly seat, rejected the Samajwadi Party-Aam Aadmi Party alliance for the next polls on Friday, claiming that these parties are not very well-known in Delhi.
“These parties don’t have much existence in Delhi,” Dikshit told ANI. Since they have begun to sense that the Congress is doing well in Delhi, these parties have suddenly recalled the partnership and do not want the Congress to gain strength in their states. They remained silent when Gopal Rai, the head of the AAP, said five months ago that there would be no partnership.
Sandeep Dixit, the son of former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit, has been put up by the Congress to run against Parvesh Verma of the BJP and Arvind Kejriwal of the AAP for the New Delhi assembly seat.
According to AAP Chief Arvind Kejriwal, the Delhi assembly polls will not be an election of the INDIA bloc but rather a straight struggle between the AAP and the BJP.
Akhilesh Yadava, the leader of the Samajwadi Party, and Mamata Banerjee, the leader of the TMC, have offered the AAP their support for the Assembly election, Kejriwal said.
“The AAP and the BJP are running in the Delhi assembly election. It isn’t the INDIA alliance election. I want to sincerely thank everyone who helped and supported us. Mamata Banerjee is on our side. We have the backing of Akhilesh Yadav. The media has informed me that Uddhav Thackeray ji’s party is also on our side,” Kejriwal said.
Delhi’s assembly elections will take place in one phase on February 5 and the results will be tallied on February 8. Nominations must be submitted by January 17. The nominations will be examined on January 18. However, January 20 is the deadline for withdrawing one’s candidacy.
The BJP has stepped up its campaign as the elections get near. The BJP candidates have claimed confidence in winning the next government with a “double engine” administration and have criticized Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for his alleged participation in the Delhi Excise Policy scandal.
Arvind Kejriwal, the leader of the Aam Aadmi Party, said that there is a “large-scale” fraud occurring in the New Delhi Assembly seat over voter additions and removals.
Kejriwal referenced a letter from Chief Minister Atishi to the Delhi Chief Electoral Officer in a post on X. “There is widespread fraud occurring in the New Delhi assembly’s voter additions and removals. In this letter to the CEC, Delhi Chief Minister Atishi ji presents facts and requests a meeting time,” he added.
The AAP, which wants to win power for the third time in a row, is emphasizing its accomplishments in the fields of health and education while the BJP has charged the AAP leaders with corruption and poor administration.
The Congress, which ruled Delhi for 15 years in a row, has lost both of the most recent assembly elections and has not been able to secure any seats. In contrast, the BJP only received eight seats in the 2020 assembly elections, while the AAP won 62 of 70 seats.
