AAP-SIDHU TALKS HEADED FOR STALEMATE
Thursday, 03/11/2016
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NEW DELHI: A month after negotiations for an electoral alliance between the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Awaaz-e-Punjab (AEP), led by Navjot Singh Sidhu resumed, sources said they were headed for a stalemate yet again with AEP trying to drive a hard bargain.
“We have not been able to move forward,” a senior AAP leader said on Wednesday evening. He hinted that AAP is irked with AEP still keeping its channels with the Congress open. “Our constitution does not allow more than one ticket per family, so we agreed to talk of an alliance instead of a merger on their insistence. But, they want too much,” he added.
Sources in AAP said party leader Durgesh Pathak had met Sidhu and his colleagues in New Delhi last week but could not finalise an alliance plan. AEP has asked AAP for around 30 seats of the 117 while the latter said it was open to a tie-up on no more than five seats.
