Dikshit doesn't rule out alliance with AAP

Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Thursday said she has not ruled out an alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), in the possibility of a hung assembly in Delhi which goes to polls Dec 4.

"Won't comment on alliance with AAP. I didn't rule it out, I didn't rule it in," Dikshit told CNN-IBN in an interview.

Dikshit has always refused to acknowledge the year-old AAP's potential of harming the Congress' prospects of winning the Delhi polls for the fourth straight time.

Several opinion polls have suggested the AAP emerging as a major political force and eating into the votes of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress.

A survey predicted a win for AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal against incumbent legislator Sheila Dikshit in the New Delhi constituency.

Taking a jibe at the AAP, Dikshit said: "There are those who took up 'jhadoo' (broom) to clean up corruption but the sting operation has shown that even they are corrupt."

However, in the interview, the three-time chief minister said she was confident of Congress winning its fourth term in Delhi.

"The citizens know that the Dec 4 elections are for Delhi and are not general elections. We are suffering from pro-incumbency and not anti-incumbency."