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Cong, AAP seal deal on seat-sharing for LS polls
February 25, 2024
|Hindustan Times
The Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress on Saturday announced their seat-sharing pact for this summer’s Lok Sabha elections, with the two key constituents of the opposition INDIA bloc disclosing a 4-3 division for the national capital’s seven constituencies between them.
While the AAP will field candidates in New Delhi, West Delhi, South Delhi and East Delhi parliamentary constituencies, the Congress will contest on North East Delhi, North West, and Chandni Chowk seats.
Apart from Delhi, the two parties also announced their seat-sharing pacts for Haryana, Goa, and Gujarat, along with the lone Lok Sabha seat in Chandigarh where the Congress has decided to field its candidate. The party did not strike an alliance in Punjab, where the AAP and Congress are arch-rivals.
“In the last few days, long discussions were held with AAP, following which AAP-Congress has finalised seat-sharing. We are happy that two important partners of the INDIA alliance will fight the election together,” Congress leaderMukulWasnik, who led the discussions from his party, said at a joint press conference in the national capital.
"Even though we will be fielding candidates on three seats in Delhi, our workers and leaders will try to ensure that the INDIA alliance wins all seven seats," he said.
A similar formula was proposed by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who was party chief at the time, ahead of the 2019 elections but the talks collapsed.
The BJP won all seven seats in the Capital in the 2019 elections in a rout for the other two who together secured fewer than 50% of the votes polled.
Giving details about the agreement, Wasnik said that in Gujarat, the Congress will contest 24 seats and the AAP will contest two Bharuch and Bhavnagar.
In Haryana, the Congress will contest nine of the 10 seats, with the AAP fielding its candidate from the Kurukshetra seat.
Both Lok Sabha seats in Goa and the one seat in Chandigarh will be contested by the Congress in alliance with the AAP, the Congress leader said.
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