Alliance Efforts Fail; AAP to Contest All 90 Seats in Haryana

Chandigarh: The pre-poll alliance and seat-sharing talks between the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party have failed as it appears that Kejriwal’s party is all set to contest the October 5 Haryana elections on its own.

Top AAP leaders have hinted that the alliance was no longer on the table.

“Baat nahi bani (didn’t work out),” senior AAP leader and former Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia said on Monday evening. AAP’s Haryana unit chief Sushil Gupta also declared that the party has decided to contest all 90 seats in Haryana. The AAP released the first list of 20 candidates including 12 candidates in seats where the Congress has already declared its nominees.

As the talks failed, Sisodia said AAP was ready to contest elections on every seat.

Asked about alliance prospects with the Congress, Sisodia clarified, “Talks to explore an alliance were held but now that it (the alliance) has not worked out, AAP workers will fight elections with all their might and defeat the BJP.”

The Congress did not comment officially on the issue of talks.