AAP and Congress are part of the INDIA Alliance, which is formed by opposition leaders to take on BJP in 2024, as the Aam Aadmi Party has been ruling Delhi since 2023. They held a meeting with Congress to discuss a seat-sharing formula for several States.
In the year 2019, the BJP won all 7 Lok Sabha seats in Delhi with nearly a 57 percent vote share, while Congress secured 22 percent votes and AAP 18 percent votes. While offering three seats to Congress, the party has sought 1 Lok Sabha seat in Gujarat, 3 in Haryana, and 1 in Goa, as per the sources.
The AAP, which rules Punjab, has expressed their willingness to allocate 6 seats to Congress in the broader state. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the Congress had bagged eight out of 13 seats with 40.12 percent of the votes.
However, the Congress lost the assembly polls in 2022 when the AAP swept the state by bagging 92 out of 117 seats. It had recent gains in Gujarat and subsequently won 5 seats in the Assembly elections.
Arvind Kejriwal’s party has high hopes of doing better in Goa and Haryana as its vote share has increased in the recent assembly polls. In the case of Goa, the party has two MLAs with nearly a 7 percent vote share and 23.5 percent votes.
As of last week, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge held a long discussion with AICC, where he said the party should focus seriously on fighting 255 seats across the country.
In West Bengal, Congress has a fixed eye on 6-10 of the 42 seats, but Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress wants to offer only two. In Uttar Pradesh, the grand old party wants to contest 20 out of 80 seats, but Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party believes the Congress does not deserve more than five seats.
In 2019, the Congress won just one Lok Sabha seat in Raebareli, the family of Gandhi. Even though there are no official announcements by the parties, several media reports suggested about this deal.
According to a report released by PTI, amid the discussions between the two parties regarding the seat-sharing formula, the Congress is facing the opposition of its leaders against a tie-up with AAP. The Congress units in Delhi and Punjab are opposed to any truck with the AAP.
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