West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had been at the forefront of pledging support to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) ahead of the Delhi Assembly polls, but AAP seems unmoved by the unsolicited attention. First, it announced that AAP would get its organisation together in three months and contest all the 294 Assembly seats in the 2016 elections in the state. Then, party ideologue Yogendra Yadav said, "We are not here for the politics of anti-Congressism or anti-BJPism. We are against the political establishment. We are against any party like the Trinamool Congress and a Lalu Prasad who have ruled and failed to deliver."
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