Lok Sabha elections: Delhi, Haryana, Gujarat, Goa, and the AAP-Congress coalition vs the BJP; specifics of seat distribution disclosed

Delhi, New: On Saturday, the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) formally announced their alliance for the next Lok Sabha elections. The seat-sharing arrangements between the parties for Delhi, Gujarat, and Haryana have been disclosed.

Which seats are Congress and the the AAP running for?
The Congress will run for 24 seats in Gujarat and the AAP for 2; the Congress will run for 9 seats in Haryana and the AAP for 1; in Delhi, the AAP will lead with 4 seats and the Congress with 3 seats.

India has 26 seats in the Lok Sabha. On the 24, Congress will compete. Bharuch and Bhavnagar are the two constituencies for which AAP would field candidates, according to Congress national secretary and MP Mukul Wasnik.

10 Lok Sabha seats are held by Haryana. Congress will compete on September 9. Kurukshetra would be the only seat for which AAP will field candidates, he said.

The Congress will compete in Chandni Chowk, North East, and North West seats in Delhi, while the AAP will run in New Delhi, West Delhi, South Delhi, and East Delhi.

According to Wasnik, the Congress has chosen to run for the Chandigarh seat after a lengthy debate.

The Congress will run for both Lok Sabha seats in Goa.

Regarding Punjab, where the AAP ousted the Congress in 2022 and established a government, the two parties remained silent.

Arvind Kejriwal, the leader of the AAP, said earlier this month that his party will run for all 13 Lok Sabha seats in Punjab.

Old enemies in Punjab and Delhi, AAP and Congress, ran together in the mayoral elections last month in Chandigarh and prevailed thanks to the Supreme Court’s intervention.

“Today, the situation that the country is going through – the manner in which the BJP Government is finishing all institutions one by one, the elections are being ‘stolen’ and Opposition leaders are being put in jail to win elections, the manner in which injustice is being done with farmers, the manner in which people of the country are suffering through unemployment and inflation…the country needs an honest and strong alternate,” Sandeep Pathak, an AAP Member of Parliament, said following the

“We formed this partnership with that in mind, putting aside our own political ambitions and considering the interests of the country. The nation always comes first; the party comes second. This election will not be contested in the way that AAP and Congress would fight it out here and there; India will fight it out here,” he said.

The two sides are now in talks about a possible agreement in Assam.

The partnership tactics have been dubbed opportunistic by the BJP.

Delhi BJP leader Ramvir Singh Bidhuri told HT that “there is a serious trust crisis between the Congress and AAP but despite that they are going to form an alliance is nothing but politics of opportunism.”