AAP thought running government a child's play: Sonia Gandhi

The party alleged that it was Gandhi's desperate bid to deflect attention from the growing public anger against a series of scams of UPA government and its wrong policies and that she chose to harp on her party's "specialisation of running a government at all costs, whether through horse trading or defection of MPs/MLAs.”

"The Aam Aadmi Party would like to make it clear that it will not compromise on its core principle of eradicating corruption from the country. It was on this promise that the people of Delhi had given 28 seats to the AAP in the assembly elections and the party's minority government was working towards bringing a strong Janlokpal bill,” the statement added.

The move to take on AAP was obvious as the party had eaten up into the majority of Congress vote bank in the last assembly elections winning 28 seats in Delhi where the ruling party was left with just eight seats in the 70-member assembly with its Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit routed by more than 25,000 votes in the New Delhi seat.

Although Kejriwal went on to become Chief Minister with outside support from Congress, he resigned on February 14 after a 49-day stint at the helm.

In all the seven Lok Sabha seats in the national capital, there is a three-cornered contest between Congress, BJP and AAP where elections are slated to be held on April 10.