The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has called a meeting of its political affairs committee (PAC) on Tuesday to likely discuss the names of the candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections 2024.
The party, led by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, has finalised its seat-sharing arrangement with its INDIA bloc ally Congress for Delhi, Gujarat, Goa and Haryana.
The Congress and AAP have decided to not forge any alliance in Punjab. The two parties have forged a seat-sharing pact, jointly deciding that the Congress will contest the sole Chandigarh Lok Sabha seat with the backing of AAP.
The party's Political Affairs Committee (PAC) will meet tomorrow to discuss names of candidates for Lok Sabha polls, a party source told news agency PTI.
The AAP has already announced three candidates for Assam and two candidates for Gujarat's Bharuch and Bhavnagar constituencies.
Earlier today, Arvind Kejriwal and AAP leaders visited Rajghat in New Delhi to mark one year of the arrest of former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia.
Sisodia, who held the education portfolio as well, was arrested on February 26, 2023, in connection with the Delhi excise policy case. Atishi, Saurabh Bharadwaj and Durgesh Pathak were among those who accompanied Kejriwal to Rajghat.
Speaking to the media after his visit, Kejriwal said, Last year on this day, the central government arrested the most capable education minister of our administration in connection with a false case.
The battle lines for Lok Sabha polls in Delhi are now clearly drawn with AAP and Congress directly in fight with the BJP which won all the seven seats in the national capital in 2019.
AAP General Secretary (organisation) Sandeep Pathak said his party entered into an alliance with the Congress by sidelining its own political interests as it believes that the country is important and the party secondary.
In Haryana, the Congress will contest nine of the 10 Lok Sabha seats while the AAP will field its candidate in Kurukshetra.