BJP also charged it has exposed Arvind Kejriwal-led party's "hypocrisy and duplicity" in its claim to cleanse politics of corruption.
"An AAP-Congress government is a contradiction in itself. How can a party, which professed to cleanse Indian politics, form an alliance with the most corrupt political party in the world," said BJP leader Harsh Vardhan today in press statement following AAP's announcement to go ahead with government formation.
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"You gather a couple of hundred people anywhere or multiple places in the city and ask them to give a particular mandate in your favour or against you, I think that's not the spirit of democracy in the name of Swaraj. I think that is an insult to the real dimension of democracy, he said.
"Everybody knows that SMS texts and emails that were sent urging AAP to agree to a power-sharing arrangement were sent from Congress headquarters.
"If Kejriwal really wanted to hear the people's voice, the only credible and convincing process was an election. But he ran away," alleged Vardhan adding Congress "has come back through the back door".
Vardhan predicted mid-term polls very soon saying he is confident that Congress "with its tradition of chicanery and corruption, will not allow AAP to perform and soon there will be mid-term polls.
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