Mumbai: Did Arvind Kejriwal want to contest the assembly elections of Haryana and Delhi in alliance with Congress? But how did this whole matter go wrong? This has been revealed by Sanjay Raut in his article written in Saamana. He has made public the information of the conversation that took place in the meeting between Aditya Thackeray and Arvind Kejriwal in Delhi. According to this, Kejriwal tried his best to form an alliance with Congress during the Haryana assembly elections but it was not possible due to the obstinacy of Congress.
The information given by Arvind Kejriwal in his conversation with Aditya Thackeray exposes the alliance related policies of Congress. Kejriwal met Aditya Thackeray at his residence on Ferozshah Road. The information given by Arvind Kejriwal himself regarding Delhi and Haryana exposes the alliance related policies of Congress. Kejriwal met Aditya Thackeray at his residence on Ferozshah Road. In this conversation, when Kejriwal was asked that “It would have been better if there had been an alliance with Congress. There is an allegation that Kejriwal did not allow the alliance to happen.” To this, Kejriwal said, “No, I was completely in favor of contesting the elections together with Congress.” Raghav Chaddha had talked to the Congress leadership
Kejriwal explained the reason and said, “When I was in jail, elections were held in Haryana. Raghav Chaddha was looking after the work of Haryana. He came to meet me in jail. I told him, we have to form an alliance with the Congress. You decide the seat sharing.” Kejriwal further said, “Congress asked us for a list. We gave a list of 14 constituencies. Rahul Gandhi said, we will give six seats to AAP. I told Raghav, no problem, take six seats. We came two steps back. Rahul Gandhi said, meet K. C. Venugopal. He will finalize.”
Congress wanted to defeat AAP, not BJP
After this, Kejriwal further said, “Raghav Chaddha met K. C. Venugopal. He said, six seats are not possible. We will give four seats. You meet our Haryana in-charge Bawaria. Chaddha came to meet me in jail. I said, okay. Take four seats. When Chadha went to meet Bavariya, he also rejected the offer of four. He said, we will give you only two seats. I again sent a message to Chadha. Okay. Take two seats. Rahul Gandhi is the boss and despite his promise, we did not get six seats. From four we came down to two. For those two seats, Raghav Chadha finally met Bhupendra Hooda. Then he offered us two seats in the BJP stronghold area. This is Congress’s interpretation of ‘gathbandhan’ dharma. What will we do? This happened in Haryana. Nothing different happened in Delhi too. They did not want to defeat the BJP. They wanted to defeat the anti-Modi Kejriwal. While saying all this, Kejriwal’s anguish was clearly visible on his face.