There have also been also plenty of criticism for the Congress, whose role has for intense scrutiny given in ,light of the much-talked-about unity of the opposition parties ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha polls. Journalist Tony Joseph asked, “There is no need for Congress to support AAP. But there is a need for it to oppose the Centre on its blatantly anti-democratic actions. These two things are not necessarily contradictory. But it requires deft articulation.”

Former diplomat KC Singh tweeted, “My advice of three days ago obviously had no effect in @RahulGandhi. Glad 4 CMs now following up on what @YashwantSinha & I did two days ago by attempting to go see @ArvindKejriwal or LG & were turned away. Cong seems like BJP B Team tonite.”

Supreme Court lawyer Sanjay Hegde tagged Congress President Rahul Gandhi and wrote, “Many people like me will vote strongest anti-BJP candidate at constituency level. If Congress in Delhi & AAP do not hang together now, they will hang separately later. Especially when rest of opposition like Mamta & NCBN here, Congress absence will hurt it later @RahulGandhi.”

This assumed significance given that Kumaraswamy is being supported by the Congress in Karnataka and Puducherry CM N Narayanasamy had last week supported Kejriwal’s decisionto stage a sit-in. Like Kejriwal, Narayanasamy too has been facing the alleged intervention by LG Kiran Bedi in Puducherry.

Kejriwal, along with Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and Cabinet ministers Satyendar Jain and Gopal Rai, is camping at Raj Niwas since Monday demanding a direction to the IAS officers working in the Delhi administration to end their undeclared strike, among other demands.