Congress will win majority on own, won't need Aam Aadmi Party: Sheila Dikshit

New Delhi: Hours after not ruling out an alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the possibility of a hung assembly in the state, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Thursday backtracked, saying the Congress will win a majority on its own.

"Won't comment on alliance with AAP. I didn't rule it out, I didn't rule it in," Mrs Dikshit said in an interview.

Mrs Dikshit, however, later issued a statement which said: "The Congress would form a government on its own without any alliance in Delhi."

The Chief Minister 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 would emerge as a major political force and eat into the votes of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress.

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

Taking a jibe at the AAP, Mrs 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 December 4 elections are for Delhi and are not general elections. We are suffering from pro-incumbency and not anti-incumbency."