Ruling out any alliance with the Congress, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Tuesday announced that his party will contest the upcoming Lok Sabha polls on its own and hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not fulfilling BJP's electoral promise of granting full statehood to Delhi.
Asserting that the upcoming polls will be fought on the issue of full statehood, Kejriwal criticised Modi for not fulfilling this promise as mentioned in BJP's 2014 manifesto.
"It amounts to cheating. They [BJP] should come clean," Kejriwal said.
"The ongoing general elections are also a part of the mass movement for full statehood for Delhi.
'BJP had no intention of giving Delhi full statehood. Prime Minister Modi needs to give an explanations as to why he did not fulfil his promise," the chief minister said, adding that his party plans to go full throttle over this issue in the coming days.
Kejriwal claimed that both Congress and BJP are against granting full statehood to Delhi.
Addressing the media from the AAP's new headquarters at ITO, Kejriwal said his party will be fighting the Lok Sabha elections on the issue of full statehood for Delhi as it (national capital) has been suffering because of it.
On being asked about its alliance partners, the chief minister said, "We are not in talks with the Congress over alliance. We will be fighting the elections on our own."