Congress, AAP make shaky progress towards seat-sharing in four states; some lament 'will be much easier to...'
2024 Lok Sabha Polls near, the seat-sharing talks between INDIA bloc allies intensifies. What has particularly taken centre stage is the talks between Aam Aadmi Party and Congress that bolstered after the grand old party declared its seat-sharing compromise with Samajwadi party in Uttar Pradesh, and especially after the Supreme Court of India upturned the Chandigarh Mayoral Poll.
Seat-sharing talks between Congress and AAP faced a dead end in Punjab, wherein the Bhagwant Singh Mann government has refused to share fate for the 2024 Lok Sabha Polls with the grand old party. However, several media reports have confirmed that the seat-sharing talks between AAP and Congress are in the final stages for Chandigarh, Haryana, Goa, Gujarat, and Delhi.
While Delhi remains an AAP bastion, Chandigarh, Haryana, Goa, and Gujarat are the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) strongholds, wherein the INDIA bloc parties need to go in stronger, if they aim to take on the saffron party. The AAP has so far unilaterally declared its candidates in two seats each in Gujarat and Assam, and one in Goa.
Gujarat, a state where BJP returned to power with a whopping majority despite the Godhra riots, has been a BJP bastion in the past two decades. Gujarat, the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will see AAP contest two seats.
While reports were strife that AAP plans to fight the Bharuch and Bhavnagar seats, Faisal Ahmed Patel, Congress leader and son of Senior Congress leader late Ahmed Patel, has said “it will be much easier for Congress to win Bharuch district, AAP's strength is only on one Assembly seat...we believe that Congress should get the Bharuch district". According to media reports, Ahmed Patel's daughter, Mumtaz, wants to contest the
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