NEW DELHI: Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday closed their seat-sharing negotiations for Delhi Lok Sabha seats on a 4:3 system. The AAP will contest 4 and Congress remaining 3 Lok Sabha seats within the nationwide capital.
“Delhi Lok Sabha has 7 seats. AAP will contest on 4 – New Delhi, West Delhi, South Delhi and East Delhi; Congress will contest on 3 – Chandni Chowk, North East and North West,” stated Congress basic secretary and MP Mukul Wasnik.
Wasnik stated that in Gujarat’s 26 Lok Sabha seats, Congress will contest on 24 and AAP will area its candidates on two seats – Bharuch and Bhavnagar.
The Bharuch seat is recognized with late Congress stalwart Ahmed Patel and has been of emotional worth for the occasion.
Patel’s daughter has been lively within the constituency, which has been extensively seen as she pitching her declare for the 2024 contest. It is to be seen how the household reacts to the occasion resolution.
The Congress chief stated that in Haryana his occasion will contest on 9 Lok Sabha seats, whereas AAP will contest on one seat.

“Haryana has 10 Lok Sabha seats. Congress will contest on 9. AAP will have its candidates on 1 seat – on Kurukshetra.” He additionally says, “After a long discussion on Chandigarh, at the end, it was decided that Congress candidate will contest from there,” Wasnik stated.
Congress will contest on each the Lok Sabha seats in Goa and the lone Chandigarh seat. Both events have determined to go solo in Punjab.

Congress and AAP made a joint announcement on the seat-sharing finalisation in a press convention. Delhi ministers and AAP leaders Atishi Marlena and Saurabh Bharadwaj have been additionally current within the briefing.
The indicators of the 2 events arriving at an association turned clear when Kejriwal turned up on the lunch hosted by Congress authorized eagle Abhishek Singhvi on Sunday, the place he was seated subsequent to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, and the 2 had an animated dialog concentrating on BJP.
Sections of the Delhi Congress have been against a tie-up with AAP, as they’ve argued that it’s going to decimate the occasion within the nationwide capital. However, the Congress brass has gone with the argument that “minor sacrifices have to be made in the interest of larger political objective”.
A couple of days in the past in Uttar Pradesh, the place Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav will likely be becoming a member of Rahul Gandhi throughout his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, INDIA bloc registered its first breakthrough in politically essential Uttar Pradesh the place Samajwadi Party and Congress agreed to 63-17 division of 80 Lok Sabha seats within the state. The Congress needed 20 seats, however finally settled for 17.

With Uttar Pradesh and Delhi offers achieved, Congress sources exuded confidence that INDIA bloc will fructify in a lot of the states.
Meanwhile, sources have stated that seat-sharing with JMM in Jharkhand has been finalised, and states like Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, are within the pipeline.
After Mamata’s snub, Congress says talks on
Earlier within the day, Senior Congress chief Jairam Ramesh cleared the air on seat-sharing potentialities with Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal, saying “discussions are underway”.
Reaffirming the Opposition’s goal to strengthen the INDIA bloc towards BJP-led NDA forward of the Lok Sabha polls, the Congress basic secretary in-charge communications stated “Mamata Banerjee and TMC have said that they want to strengthen INDIA Alliance and the biggest motive is to defeat the BJP”.
The probabilities of an alliance between Congress and the TMC in West Bengal have been hanging in limbo ever since state chief minister Mamata Banerjee asserted that there can be no alliance with the Congress in Bengal and that the Trinamool would struggle it alone in its house state.