VIJAYAWADA: Congress has ruled out alliance with TDP and decided to fight the forthcoming elections to the AP assembly and Lok Sabha on its own. Andhra Pradesh has 175 assembly seats and 25 Lok Sabha seats.The decision comes after the executive meeting of the state Congress held on Wednesday. The state leadership had held a two-day coordination committee on Monday and Tuesday to formulate election plans.The state leadership seems to have received the green signal from the high command to go ahead to contest all the seats without looking for alliance with the TDP. The state Congress was in two minds whether to continue alliance with the TDP in AP after its debacle in Telangana or accept it if the high command wanted it.During the first day of the two-day co-ordination meeting, the state leaders pitched for an alliance with the TDP. Some of them even mooted joining hands with YSRC and Jana Sena, if possible.On the second day, it is learnt that the high command sent feelers to Oommen Chandy, AICC general secretary in-charge of AP affairs and former chief minister of Kerala, on the alliance. The Congress high command asked the AP leaders to get ready for a contest without alliance. “The alliance with TDP will be only to safeguard national interests and not for the state’s affairs,” said Chandy. The Congress leadership said they would begin election campaign related work from February 1 with focus on the state’s demand for special category status.The leaders said Congress president Rahul Gandhi had promised SCS on a priority basis and the task before the Congress was to ensure that Rahul was made the Prime Minister. APCC president N Raghuveera Reddy said, “We are convinced that only the Congress and Rahul Gandhi can bring SCS to the state.”