Seat Sharing between Congress and AAP sealed
Seat sharing agreements for the Lok Sabha elections in Delhi, Gujarat, Goa, and Haryana have been finalized by the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party, who this week produced the INDIA bloc’s first electoral victory, in the Chandigarh mayoral election. The specifications will be disclosed during a news conference later today, but it is believed that the members of the INDIA group have decided to divide Delhi’s seven seats four ways to three.
Seat Sharing of Congress and AAP
According to sources, the AAP will run candidates in East, West, and South Delhi in addition to New Delhi, while the Congress will run candidates in Chandi Chowk, North West, and North East Delhi. The BJP won each of the seven seats in the 2019 election.
A deal for Goa, Chandigarh, Gujarat, and Haryana was also reportedly locked, according to reports that media received hours later. Two seats in Gujarat and one each in Chandigarh and Haryana are also included in the agreement.
As of right now, the AAP was expected to run for two seats in Gujarat, the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi; the Congress was expected to win Chandigarh’s lone Lok Sabha seat as well as the seat in South Goa; and the AAP was expected to win at least one seat in Haryana.
BJP’s victory
In the most recent election, the BJP won every one of these, taking all 26 seats in Gujarat and all 10 in Haryana. Goa has just two Lok Sabha seats. The BJP won North Goa and trailed the Congress’ Francisco Sardinha by less than 10,000 votes in South Goa.
The Chandigarh seat was also won by Mr. Modi’s party; Pawan Kumar Bansal had previously won three terms as a member of the Congress. There were rumors that the AAP might want this seat.
INDIA trying to its full potential
With only a few days till the Lok Sabha election dates are revealed, the Congress-led INDIA has been very busy this week, concluding agreements in Uttar Pradesh, nearing completion of a deal in Maharashtra, and wishing for a resurgence of prosperity in Bengal.
For the time being, these agreements haven’t altered the situation in Punjab, where the AAP plans to run for all 13 seats. Arvind Kejriwal, the chief minister of Delhi and the head of the party, confirmed such last week while criticizing the Congress in the process.
The UP arrangement, which followed Mr. Yadav’s “ultimatum” on his participation in the party’s “Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra,” was India’s first significant seat-share agreement. Under it, the Congress will run for 17 of the state’s 80 seats, while Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party (and its supporters in the region) will contest the other 63.
