Congress first offers unconditional support to AAP, then taunts it

Arvind Kejriwal has already ruled out giving any support to BJP for the purpose and termed as “personal opinion” the remarks of party leader Prashant Bhushan, who told a TV channel last night that AAP may consider supporting BJP if the party gives AAP in writing that it will pass the Jan Lokpal Bill.

“We cannot support BJP or Congress as AAP was formed as an alternative to them. People have supported us so that we can establish an alternative politics in the country,” Bhushan clarified today.

“My personal opinion is that the Congress should unconditionally support them so that they (AAP) can form the government and deliver promises to the people on power, water and other issues,” Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said.

Ever since debutant AAP's spectacular show in Delhi polls, Congress has gone soft on Kejriwal's party. Rahul Gandhi had said on Sunday that AAP involved a lot of people which was ignored by traditional political parties and “we are going to learn from that.”

A known detractor of Kejriwal, Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh has termed AAP's victory as “something good for the electoral politics of democratic India”.  At the AICC briefing, Babbar dismissed Kejriwal's suggestion that Congress and BJP should join hands to form the next government in the state.

“We do not know what is the idelogy of AAP. Congress is more than 125-year-old party. We have never made any compromise with secularism,” he said.  To a question whether Congress will support AAP, Babbar, a cine star turned politician quoted a Hindi song “Begaani Shaadi Me Abdulla Diwana” suggesting that Congress has no role in it.

AAP has already ruled out taking support from Congress and as such despite a section in the ruling party being in favour of supporting Kejriwal's party to form a government to keep the BJP at bay, there is no forward movement on it in absence any demand of support.