NEW DELHI: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi decided against supporting the Aam Aadmi Party to form another government in Delhi, after it approached the Congress leadership for its help.Both parties were engaged in discussions to prevent fresh elections but despite efforts by AAP , Congress decided to not extend its support to AAP. Sources indicated that the decision was taken by Rahul Gandhi himself. AAP, however, denied approaching Congress for support.It termed such reports as, “misleading and appears to have been flashed with a malicious intention to unnecessarily drag the party into a needless controversy. AAP would like to clearly state in no uncertain terms that Kejriwal did not meet any Congress leader,” a press release on the party website said.However, sources confirmed AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal had met Congress chief Sonia Gandhi to discuss the possibilities of forming an AAP-led government in the national capital.An AAP leader who was the party’s candidate from a high-profile constituency in Delhi in the Lok Sabha elections was also recently seen outside senior Congress leader Ahmad Patel ’s office.“Some of the leaders of the AAP have contacted our leader asking for support to form a government in Delhi. Some of their senior leaders have tried to get in touch with our MLAs and also some of our senior leaders. But we are not supporting AAP at the moment,” said senior Congress leader Shakeel Ahmad . The Congress leadership was of the view that AAP had eaten into its vote share with its rants against former CM Sheila Dikshit and other senior leaders and supporting it would be detrimental to Congress’ interest.After the Delhi assembly polls in 2013, Congress extended its support to AAP, which emerged as the second-largest party. However, the Kejriwal-led government resigned after 49 days, as Congress refused to support the Jan Lokpal Bill.In a dramatic reversal of fortune, AAP, which had won 28 assembly seats in the Delhi elections, could not win even one out of the seven Lok Sabha seats. A section in AAP fears that in case of fresh elections in Delhi, the results of Lok Sabha would be repeated and the party might not get enough seats to form a government.