AAP, Congress seat sharing LS election: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will contest four Lok Sabha seats in Delhi, while the Congress will contest three, the two parties announced on Saturday. They also revealed their seat-sharing arrangements for other states including Gujarat, Goa, and Haryana for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
The Congress and the AAP are constituents of the INDIA bloc, formed by opposition parties to take on the BJP in the upcoming general elections.
Speaking at a press conference held in New Delhi on Saturday, representatives from AAP including Saurabh Bharadwaj, Atishi, and Sandeep Pathak, along with Congress members Mukul Wasnik, Deepak Babaria, and Arvinder Singh Lovely, announced a seat-sharing agreement for the upcoming elections in Delhi.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP had won all the seven parliamentary constituencies in Delhi.
Wasnik announced that the AAP will contest the New Delhi, the West Delhi, the South Delhi and the East Delhi seats, while his party the Chandni Chowk, the Northeast Delhi and the Northwest Delhi seats.
In Gujarat, the AAP will contest from Bharuch and Bhavnagar, while the Congress will contest in remaining 24 seats. The AAP has already announced candidates for the Bharuch and the Bhavnagar Lok Sabha seats.
In Haryana, the AAP will contest the Lok Sabha polls from Kurukshetra, and Congress will fight both the Lok Sabha seats in Goa.
The Congress will also contest the lone seat in Chandigarh, Wasnik said.
AAP leader Sandeep Pathak said that the Arvind Kejriwal-led party and the Congress have decided to contest Lok Sabha elections separately in Punjab.