If Cong wants AAP votes for Hariprasad, Rahul should ask Kejriwal: Sanjay Singh

The Aam Aadmi Party today said it may not vote for opposition nominee B K Hariprasad in the Rajya Sabha deputy chairman election, unless Rahul Gandhi asks Arvind Kejriwal for support.

Earlier today, sources said Congress MP from Karnataka Hariprasad, 64, will be the opposition's candidate for the post of Rajya Sabha deputy chairperson.

"If they (the Congress) ask for our vote, we will oblige. It is meaningless to vote compulsively (for the Congress), if they do not need it," AAP's Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh told reporters.

The Congress decided to field its nominee as the joint opposition candidate after the other parties in the opposition bloc chose not to nominate their members.

Singh said AAP convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will take a final call on how the party votes in the election for deputy chairman tomorrow.

"If Rahul Gandhi can hug Narendra Modi, why cannot he ask Arvind Kejriwal for support to his party's candidate," Singh said.

Dubbing the Congress as a "mean-spirited" party, Singh said the AAP voted in favour of its candidates in the elections for the President and the Vice President, even without being asked for it.

"We voted in favour of their candidates in the elections for President and Vice President but they did not even had the courtesy to say thank you."