Arun Jaitley writes on AAP, Congress tie-up: 'Each wants to outfox the other'

"It therefore takes a calculated risk. It continues to denigrate the Congress and take its support. The Congress on the other hand chooses to get insulted in order to defer the prospects of another electoral humiliation. It is hoping to support the AAP for some reasonable period in order to defer the elections in Delhi so as to enable it to politically recover.

" Both Congress and the AAP have entered in to this political adjustment with a self serving motive. Each wants to outfox the other. The Congress wants the AAP to make a few mistakes so that it can recover its constituency and then force a poll.

"The AAP knows that it is forming a fragile Government with a short life. It has sacrificed its principle of ‘no Congress support' in order to make its presence felt nationally by forming a Government in the national capital. When the two Parties jointly constituting a majority in the Assembly are allowing a Government formation with a dishonorable motive, one only hopes that governance and eventually the citizens of Delhi do not become a casualty."