The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is keen on an alliance with the Congress in Delhi for the upcoming parliamentary polls, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday.
It was now up to the Congress to reciprocate, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief added.
"Arvind Kejriwal wants an alliance with the Congress in Delhi," she told reporters here.
Banerjee further said the AAP supremo had struggled hard to become the chief minister of Delhi and that he was continuing to struggle.
"What will Arvind do? He has gone through so much. He wants to go with the Congress, what I understood during last night's meeting. Let the Congress decide, but the AAP has agreed is what I heard," the TMC chief reiterated, adding that she could not comment on whether the alliance would finally materialise.
Earlier in the day, Kejriwal said the Congress had "more or less" declined to have an alliance in Delhi for the general election.
He also said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would benefit in a ...
