Did not get support from Congress leadership, says Sheila Dikshit

Former Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has said she wished she knew what went wrong in the Delhi elections, saying that the Congress had worked for the state for 15 years. According to CNN-IBN, she said that she had not got enough support from the Congress party. “I didn’t get the support from the party that I should have,” she told the channel. [caption id=“attachment_1277039” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. PTI[/caption] “The party and government went separate ways and that was a problem. There should have been more cohesion,” she added. This is exactly what Congress spokesman Jayanti Natarajan denied last evening when confronted with the same question. “Sheila Dikshit was never alone, she got all the support,” she said, answering to charges that Sheila had got no support and had been left to battle it out alone in the polls. The former Chief Minister also admitted that they had underestimated the Aam Aadmi Party. “We didn’t understand the Kejriwal factor but there were corruption charges against him which should have been seen but people didn’t,” she said. But the Delhi Chief Minister did try to be practical about her defeat. “What has happened has happened. This is the people’s verdict”, she told reporters in Delhi. She added that all she wanted to see now, was a stable government for Delhi, but said that the Congress would have no part to play in alliance formation. When asked what she thought AAP would do now, she said, “I can’t answer for AAP”. Track live Delhi updates here.