Talks between AAP, Congress for Haryana alliance fail over seat-sharing: Sources

According to sources, the AAP wanted to contest on at least 10 seats, but the Congress wasn't willing to spare more than three for the Arvind Kejriwal-led party.
Talks between AAP, Congress for Haryana alliance fail over seat-sharing: Sources
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The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Congress failed to reach a consensus on seat-sharing for the upcoming Haryana Assembly election, sources told India Today TV. The parties, which are part of the opposition INDIA bloc at the national level, may go solo in the polls.

According to sources, the AAP wanted to contest on at least 10 seats, but the Congress wasn't willing to spare more than three for the Arvind Kejriwal-led party.

Last week, the parties reached an in-principle agreement to jointly contest the Haryana polls. Discussions took place at multiple levels over the past few days, during which Congress leader Deepak Babaria, party's negotiator for alliance talks, stated that the alliance will only materialise if it creates a "win-win" situation for both parties.

Sources said the AAP was insisting on the Kalayat seat and at least one seat in the Kurukshetra region.

Seeing no headway in the seat-sharing talks, Haryana AAP chief Sushil Gupta on Monday said they would release the full list of candidates if the Congress couldn't make a decision by the evening.

Shortly after, the AAP released its first list of 20 candidates for the October 5 Haryana assembly polls. The party has fielded its Haryana unit vice president Anurag Dhanda from Kalayat and Indu Sharma from Bhiwani. Vikas Nehra has been fielded from Meham and Bijender Hooda from Rohtak.

"We have released the first list and soon you will get the second list. Now there is very little time left for the elections. We waited honestly (for the alliance) because the organisation is strong in every assembly and that strong organisation wanted us to contest the elections. We have shown our patience and after that, we released our list," said Sushil Gupta.

Speaking about the AAP's first list, Congress MP Deepender Hooda said, "Even our list has been released... The issue is of 10 years of misgovernance by the BJP government. In 10 years, the BJP has derailed the state of Haryana from the track of progress and development. Today Haryana is number one in unemployment in the country, in crime Haryana is number one. Today, Haryana has gone ahead of Punjab in intoxication. Such is the situation that Haryana is number 1 in the country in insulting every section."

The Congress has already announced 41 candidates. According to sources, the Congress sub-committee, formed to assess the tricky seats in Haryana’s 90 assembly constituencies, has finalised a list of 49 candidates and sent it to the party leadership.

Assembly elections in Haryana will be held on October 5 and the counting of votes will be undertaken on October 8.

Source: India Today

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