Congress's Catch-22 As Other Parties Back AAP In Fight vs Centre

Sources told NDTV that the Congress will soon make its position clear, basing it on protection of constitutional values, and making it clear that it is opposed to the BJP but not in full support of AAP.

While the Congress is yet to clarify its position on whether to support Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in its fight against the Centre's ordinance on Delhi services, several non-BJP parties have come out in AAP's support.

AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal, the Chief Minister of Delhi, has received support from various parties in the last few days, after his meetings with the leaders of CPI(M), Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Janata Dal (United), Trinamool Congress, Bharat Rashtra Samithi, Shiv Sena (UT) and others.

He will also meet with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin and Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren.

Mr Kejriwal has kept a busy schedule over the past two weeks, meeting with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy Tejashwi Yadav, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar, and CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury to seek their help to defeat the Centre's Bill in Parliament, specifically in Rajya Sabha.