Haryana assembly elections: Congress And AAP seat sharing talks
New Delhi: The Congress leadership has established a three-member committee to facilitate alliances with the Aam Aadmi Party and the Samajwadi Party. The committee comprises Ajay Maken, Deepak Babaria, and Bhupendra Singh Hooda as its members. The organization’s General Secretary, KC Venugopal, will oversee the committee’s activities.
‘We welcome it…’: AAP on possible alliance with Congress in poll-bound Haryana
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) senior leader Sanjay Singh on Tuesday expressed his welcome of reports indicating that Rahul Gandhi was soliciting opinions from Congress leaders about a potential alliance between the two parties in Haryana, which is gearing up for elections.
However, Singh emphasized that any final decision would be made only after consulting with Delhi Chief Minister and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal, who is currently in jail in connection with the alleged scam in the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy.
“We welcome it… our priority is to defeat the BJP. Our Haryana in-charge Sandeep Pathak and (state unit president) Sushil Gupta will take a final decision and inform Arvind Kejriwal about it. A decision will be taken accordingly,” ANI quoted the Rajya Sabha member as saying.
Reports suggest that former Congress chief Gandhi, who is the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, raised the topic during a meeting of the grand old party’s Central Election Committee (CEC) on Monday.
The aim, as per reports, is to prevent the division of anti-BJP votes, given that the state’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, which has been in power since 2014, is facing anti-incumbency.
