Kejriwal’s Shifting Goalpost Killed AAP-Cong Deal: Rahul Gandhi

“Kejriwal brought Punjab and Haryana into the game. That’s not workable for us,” said Rahul Gandhi.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday, 2 May said that the Congress was up for an alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi, but not in Punjab and Haryana for “strategic reasons”.

In an interview to NDTV, Gandhi said that he even went against his party’s wish to form an alliance with AAP in Delhi, but Delhi Chief Minister and AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal’s insistence on including Punjab and Haryana in the equation affected the deal.

“We had a clear commitment to Mr Kejriwal, we had an alliance of 4:3. He agreed to that alliance upfront and then suddenly he brought Punjab and Haryana into the game. That’s not workable for us,” Gandhi told NDTV’s Sreenivasan Jain.