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NEW DELH: BJP leader and party's chief ministerial candidate Harsh Vardhan on Monday said that by taking support of Congress to form government in Delhi, the Aam Aadmi Party has proved that they were hungry for power.
"The AAP fought the election on the anti-corruption plank and now they have taken support from a party that has been completely rejected by the people of Delhi. This proves that AAP is hungry for power ... This is a 'betrayal' of the wishes of the people of Delhi." Harsh Vardhan said.
In the recently concluded Delhi assembly polls, the BJP emerged as the single-largest party with 31 seats with ally Shiromani Akali Dal getting one seat, short of the the halfway mark in the 70-member house.
The Congress which got 8 seats offered support to AAP to form a government.
The BJP decided not to stake claim to form the government leaving the field open for Arvind Kejriwal-lead AAP to "respect the mandate of the voters in Delhi".
AAP told the lieutenant governor Najeeb Jung that it needed 10 days to decide on whether it would form the government. AAP then held a "referendum" to ask people whether it should form a minority government with Congress support.
Harsh Vardhan criticized AAP for seeking the opinion of the people whether to form a government or not. He said that the opinion of a "few hundred" cannot supersede the mandate of millions of people.
"Around 70 per cent of the people of Delhi had given their mandate and chosen their representative and now you go out on streets and ask some hundreds of people to give a mandate that is an insult to the real dimension of democracy," the BJP leader said.
BJP cries foul as AAP set to form govt with 'conditional' Congress support - The Times of India
"The AAP fought the election on the anti-corruption plank and now they have taken support from a party that has been completely rejected by the people of Delhi. This proves that AAP is hungry for power ... This is a 'betrayal' of the wishes of the people of Delhi." Harsh Vardhan said.
In the recently concluded Delhi assembly polls, the BJP emerged as the single-largest party with 31 seats with ally Shiromani Akali Dal getting one seat, short of the the halfway mark in the 70-member house.
The Congress which got 8 seats offered support to AAP to form a government.
The BJP decided not to stake claim to form the government leaving the field open for Arvind Kejriwal-lead AAP to "respect the mandate of the voters in Delhi".
AAP told the lieutenant governor Najeeb Jung that it needed 10 days to decide on whether it would form the government. AAP then held a "referendum" to ask people whether it should form a minority government with Congress support.
Harsh Vardhan criticized AAP for seeking the opinion of the people whether to form a government or not. He said that the opinion of a "few hundred" cannot supersede the mandate of millions of people.
"Around 70 per cent of the people of Delhi had given their mandate and chosen their representative and now you go out on streets and ask some hundreds of people to give a mandate that is an insult to the real dimension of democracy," the BJP leader said.
BJP cries foul as AAP set to form govt with 'conditional' Congress support - The Times of India
