Delhi Congress president Arvinder Singh Lovely said AAP was launching the programme with an aim to increase its vote-bank but the party will not succeed as people have decided to reject it following its 49-day rule.

New Delhi: Stepping up attack on Aam Aadmi Party, Congress today termed its mass contact programme 'mohallah sabhas' as another way of trying to "mislead" people of the city before the next Assembly election.

Delhi Congress president Arvinder Singh Lovely said AAP was launching the programme with an aim to increase its vote-bank but the party will not succeed as people have decided to reject it following its 49-day rule.

"People of Delhi have understood that how AAP resort to theatrics. In its 49-day ruling, AAP didn't float any tender for any development work. Through the programme, they will again try to mislead people," Lovely said addressing a press conference along with senior leader Mukesh Sharma.

Accusing AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal of not allowing internal democracy in the party, he said important decisions in the party are taken without discussions with volunteers and others.

"If AAP was so concerned about the mohalla sabhas, why did it not bring a bill on it. The truth is that not even a draft of the bill was prepared," Lovely said.

Earlier this week, Kejriwal had announced holding mohalla sabhas across 27 assembly segments where AAP candidates had won in the Assembly polls in December last year.

The aim of the initiative is to ask people how to spend MLA Local Area Development funds and reconnect with the people with an aim of recovering the "lost ground" before the Assembly polls. AAP had won 28 seats but the party sacked one of its MLAs for "anti-party activities".

Lovely also raised the issue of power outages in the national capital and alleged that AAP and BJP were responsible for the situation.

"AAP and BJP are responsible for the power situation. When Congress was in power for 15 years, there was no power and water shortage, but now people are continuously facing such problems. Congress leaders would soon meet LG on this," he

said.

He said if the situation does not improve, then Congress would launch a series of protests in the city.

PTI