Delhi Elections: Kejriwal Dumps Rahul Gandhi After Haryana Loss, AAP to Fly Solo

New Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal -led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday announced that it will contest the upcoming Delhi Elections solo, dumping the INDI alliance.

AAP's national spokesperson Priyanka Kakkar said, "We will contest Delhi (assembly) elections alone. On one side it's the overconfident Congress and on the other side, it's the arrogant BJP ."

She added that the party will contest the polls based on what it has done in the national capital in the last 10 years.

"We will contest the election based on what we have done in Delhi in the last 10 years..."

This comes a day after the Congress lost in the Haryana Assembly polls. Reacting to the results, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal said on Tuesday that the "biggest lesson" from Haryana is that one should never be "overconfident" in the elections and failed to come back to power despite 10 years of anti-incumbency against the BJP .

Addressing a gathering of the AAP municipal councillors at an event, Kejriwal said, “The biggest lesson of this is that one should never be overconfident in the elections.”

During the poll campaign in Haryana , Kejriwal had asserted that no party can form the government in the state without the AAP's support.

"No election should be taken lightly. Each election and each seat is tough," he added.

In the Lok Sabha polls this year, the AAP and the Congress fought elections together in Haryana .

Meanwhile, reacting to the results of the Haryana Assembly polls, AAP's state chief Sushil Gupta said that the outcome would have been different if there had been an alliance like the Lok Sabha elections.

"The outcome would have been different if the alliance (of AAP- Congress ) had participated in this ( Haryana 's) assembly election as well...," Gupta said.

As part of their agreement, the Aam Aadmi Party contested only one seat, but it lost while the Congress won five out of 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana .

(Inputs from PTI)