Congress ready for assembly polls in Delhi: Mukesh Sharma

Buyoed by "encouraging response" to Rahul Gandhi's rally in Delhi, Congress tonight said it was ready for assembly election in the national capital "any time" after the Lok Sabha polls.
Sources in Congress said the party is likely to convey to the Supreme Court on April 17 that it would not oppose holding of assembly election after the Lok Sabha polls when the hearing on a case relating to the issue is held.
The Supreme Court had on March 31 given two weeks to both BJP and Congress to make their stand clear whether any of them is in a position to stake claim to form government in Delhi in the wake of the assembly being kept under suspended animation following the resignation of Aam Aadmi Party government.

Asked about the issue, Chief spokesman of Delhi Congress Mukesh Sharma said his party was ready for election any time.
"We are ready for election. Rahul Gandhi's rally yesterday in South Delhi proved that Congress has regained its lost ground. Delhi Congress wants early assembly election," Sharma claimed.
"The people of Delhi realised that AAP was misleading them. We (Congress has 8 seats in the assembly) are not in a position to form the government. So the party was ready to face the electorate again on the plank of development," he said.