The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress on Saturday announced a formal seat-sharing arrangement in Delhi.
The AAP will contest four of the seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi while the remaining three will be contested by the Congress party, as part of the agreement between the two INDIA bloc partners.
As per the agreement, the Congress will field candidates in North East, Chandni Chowk, North West and the AAP will field candidates in New Delhi, East Delhi, West Delhi and South Delhi seats, Congress general secretary and MP Mukul Wasnik said in a joint press conference of AAP and Congress leaders in the national capital.
The parties have also agreed on a seat-sharing arrangement in Gujarat, Haryana, Chandigarh and Goa. The AAP will contest two seats – Bharuch and Bhavnagar seats in Gujarat.
In Haryana, AAP will contest on one seat (Kurukshetra). The Congress will contest on the lone seat in Chandigarh and in Goa too, the Congress will contest on both the seats, Wasnik said. AAP Rajya Sabha member Sandeep Pathak and ministers Saurabh Bharadwaj and Atishi represented Arvind Kejriwal-led party at the press conference.
