Before the Lok Sabha elections, the opposition alliance ‘India’ seems to be completely active. Meanwhile, leaders of Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) held a meeting for the first time in Delhi on Monday. Both the parties discussed the seat sharing arrangement for the Lok Sabha elections. The English website Times of India has published news regarding this meeting. If reports are to be believed, Congress’s first meeting with AAP ended without any formal announcement, but the meeting ended with an assurance that leaders from both sides would work together. Both parties will meet again to finalize the formula. It has been reported quoting sources that AAP has expressed its desire to give three out of seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi to Congress, while Arvind Kejriwal’s party will be given one Lok Sabha seat in Gujarat, three in Haryana and one in Goa. According to the further news given regarding the meeting, Aam Aadmi Party has offered six out of 13 seats to Congress in Punjab. Let us tell you that this is a state where state leaders of Congress have strongly opposed the idea of forming an alliance with AAP in the Lok Sabha elections. It is noteworthy that in the Lok Sabha elections 2019, BJP had won all the 7 seats of Delhi. At the same time, Congress had got 8 seats in Punjab. The Akali-BJP alliance had to be content with four seats while AAP had to be content with only one seat. However, when the last Lok Sabha elections were held, there was a Congress government in Punjab. After this meeting between Aam Aadmi Party and Congress, there will be an internal discussion. If reports are to be believed, Congress has expressed its desire to contest elections on East Delhi, North East and Chandni Chowk seats in Delhi. Apart from Congress National Alliance Committee convenor Mukul Wasnik, former Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot, senior Congress leaders Salman Khurshid, Mohan Prakash and Delhi PCC chief Arvinder Singh Lovely, AAP leader Sandeep Pathak and Delhi ministers Atishi and Saurabh were present in the meeting. Bhardwaj has discussed the possibilities of seat sharing.
