Though his party continues to maintain that there will be no alliance with the Congress, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Amanatullah Khan raised eyebrows on Wednesday by stating that his party will extend support if the grand old party wins the 2019 Lok Sabha election.

Speaking in the presence of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at a Delhi Waqf Board event, he said that the AAP alone can defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Delhi but will back the Congress if it appears that the next Prime Minister will come from the party.

“People are saying they will vote for the Congress because the next prime minister will be from that party. If that is so, we will also extend support to the Congress,” he said adding that in Delhi only the AAP can defeat the BJP.

Urging the gathering to vote for AAP in Delhi, Khan said, “Do not waste your vote. The votes will be wasted if given to the Congress. Vote for the AAP if you want to defeat the BJP.”

Speaking at the event, Kejriwal, however, said that his party will support anyone except the Modi-Shah duo, referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah.

“Neither Modi nor Rahul (Gandhi) will become the Prime Minister. We will support anyone else who becomes the prime minister,” he said.

Kejriwal had on 19 January attended West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s mega anti-BJP rally in Kolkata, which was also attended by senior Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Abhishek Manu Singhvi besides nearly every top leader from across the country.

At the event, Kejriwal had compared PM Modi to Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler.

“Hitler became the German chancellor in 1931. He then ended voting and remained Chancellor till his death. Modi-Amit Shah want to do the same. They want to end democracy,” he said.

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There have been speculations that the AAP was planning to ally with the Congress. But on 19 January, the AAP said it will not enter into an alliance with the grand old party for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

Calling the Congress “arrogant”, senior AAP leader Gopal Rai had on 19 January said that his party will contest all the 30 Lok Sabha seats in Delhi, Punjab, and Haryana on its own.

The AAP also cites poll arithmetic to argue that it is better suited than Congress to defeat the BJP in Delhi.

(With inputs from agencies.)