Congress and AAP will shortly begin a combined polling campaign: Rai

AAP and Congress, the partners of the India bloc, are expected to launch coordinated campaigns in the next few days for each of the seven Lok Sabha seats.

“We have already started our campaign, and the Congress party has already started interacting with people after the announcement of its candidates. Regarding the collaborative campaign, it will begin in the next days. Our goal is to remove the BJP from power and win all seven seats. On the ground, we are one and our coalition is fighting together,” AAP state convener Gopal Rai said on Friday.

Through door-to-door meetings, sankal sabhas, and padyatras, MLAs and MP candidates are engaging in grassroots campaigning on behalf of the AAP.

Senior Congressman Khavinder Singh Captain has said that the party is holding in-depth talks to create a complete coordinated campaign plan. “We are assembling committees at different levels to build a single coordination team for the election campaign. MLAs, council members, and leaders of both parties will serve on these committees. Our goal is quite clear: we want to win all seven seats from the BJP, Captain said.

Delhi Congress president Arvinder Singh Lovely said that a team from both parties will be established and that there would be a coordinated campaign in the national capital, only days after the two parties struck an alliance.

Several former Delhi ministers of the late Sheila Dikshit will appear on a panel that will be chaired by former president of the Delhi Congress Subhash Chopra. Senior leaders Haroon Yusuf, Raj Kumar Chauhan, Mukesh Sharma, Jai Kishan, and Ramesh Kuma will be on the committee.

Allies of the INDIA bloc staged a massive gathering at Ramlila Maidan on March 31 to express their support and unanimity in response to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s detention by the ED on suspicion of running an excise policy scam.

Sharing a seat

In accordance with the 4:3 seat sharing agreement, the Congress and the AAP will run in the Lok Sabha elections. The Congress will run from Chandni Chowk, Northeast Delhi, and Northwest Delhi, while the AAP will run from the seats in New Delhi, West Delhi, South Delhi, and East Delhi.