Muslims should vote for AAP; we will support Congress if it forms govt at Centre: MLA Amanatullah Khan

The major statement by AAP’s Amanatullah Khan was made in the presence of Chief Arvind Kejriwal at Delhi Waqf Board meeting.

The major statement by AAP’s Amanatullah Khan was made in the presence of Chief Arvind Kejriwal at the Delhi Waqf Board meeting./ IMAGE TWITTER

NEW DELHI: Controversial Aam Aadmi Party MLA Amanatullah Khan on Wednesday said that Muslim voters should elect AAP in Delhi and if Congress wins at the Centre, "it will draw our support". The major statement by AAP’s Amanatullah Khan was made in the presence of Chief Arvind Kejriwal at the Delhi Waqf Board meeting. Kejriwal also said that his party will support anyone except Narendra Modi and Amit Shah. The chief minister also reportedly said that "TV channels may call it Modi vs Rahul but the fact is BJP would be defeated by AAP and not by Congress in the national capital. "If I felt the Congress could win, the AAP would give them all the seven seats (in Delhi) and leave the contest in their favour. The Congress cannot win even a single seat in Delhi," Kejriwal said. Explaining the "vote mathematics" to the Imams, Kejriwal pointed out that in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP had won all the seven seats in Delhi by polling 46 per cent votes, whereas the AAP had got 33 per cent and the Congress 15 per cent votes. "It is being said that the BJP is going to lose 10 per cent votes. If these votes go to the Congress, the BJP will win again. But if the AAP gets these votes, we will bag the seven seats," he was quoted by news agency PTI.The AAP supremo also told the gathering that there was no need to bother about who would become the next prime minister. Earlier, Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had announced that it will not join the proposed opposition alliance against the BJP for the 2019 general elections. The AAP had also stated that under no circumstances they would support NDA and would not grant their support to Congress until Rahul Gandhi himself comes and seeks support from Kejriwal. The party had said that its focus will only be on 33 seats, of which 7 are from Delhi, 13 from Punjab, 10 in Haryana, 2 in Goa and 1 in Chandigarh. Though there has been no direct political contact between the Congress and the AAP, Congress President Rahul Gandhi and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal last year had shared the stage at a farmers rally and at a similar rally at Jantar Mantar. Both were also present at the swearing-in ceremony of Karnataka Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy earlier last year.