NEW DELHI: In a meeting at

national convener Arvind

’s residence on Thursday, several party leaders from

opposed any alliance with

in the state for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

Around 800 AAP leaders and workers, right from the block level, are in Delhi to learn political strategies to strengthen the party before the general elections. AAP is the main opposition party in Punjab while Congress is in power.

“Some leaders said Congress had not fulfilled its poll promises and joining hands with it will put our leaders in a difficult situation,” AAP’s Delhi convener, Gopal Rai, said. AAP’s Rajya Sabha MP, Sanjay Singh, also said that as of now there was no alliance plan with any party but remained silent on any such possibility in the future. AAP’s political affairs committee will take the final call after getting feedback from Haryana, Rai added.

Booth-level committees will be formed in Punjab before January 30 and party workers will connect with the AAP-supported candidates who had won in the panchayat elections, Rai said.

After receiving inputs that people of Punjab are annoyed with high power tariff, AAP has decided to run a Delhi-like campaign for cheaper electricity, which had helped it in the 2015 assembly polls in the capital.

In the meantime, following an uproar in the Delhi assembly over a recent resolution demanding stripping the late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of Bharat Ratna, opposition leader Vijender Gupta said on Thursday that its “content was changed in the assembly records to please Congress with which AAP wants to form an alliance before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections”.

The trouble erupted after Manjinder Singh Sirsa, an opposition MLA, demanded removal of the “names of Gandhi family from all institutions, schemes and roads” and adoption of a resolution stating that “the late Rajiv Gandhi was an accused of the 1984 carnage”. Sirsa also demanded a discussion on a December 23 notice to remove speaker Ram Niwas Goel for allegedly deleting the mention of Rajiv Gandhi.

Gupta claimed that the Bharat Ratna resolution was passed on December 21 with the support of all MLAs but a bulletin released by the assembly secretariat later did not mention the demand about Rajiv Gandhi.

Goel refused to accept Sirsa’s demands, saying any such notice should be given 14 days in advance. Sirsa and other opposition MLAs jumped into the well, prompting Goel to order marshalling out of Sirsa and suspension of three opposition MLAs for the day. The House was also adjourned for 15 minutes.

The tampering has hurt the dignity of the House, claimed Gupta outside the House. “Arvind Kejriwal and AAP are changing the resolution even after a senior Congress leader has been convicted in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.”

Sirsa alleged that his turban was “forcefully removed on the direction of AAP MLAs” inside the House. AAP’s Jarnail Singh, however, rejected the allegation.

While Singh, who had moved the resolution, initially said it had been passed, AAP and speaker Goel clarified that the resolution was not carried as it was not moved according to the procedure. Gupta still claimed that the resolution was passed. Goel later received complaints from some AAP MLAs that Sirsa had damaged a bench and forwarded it to the privilege committee.