Haryana: AAP releases list of 20 candidates as alliance with Congress remains unclear
Twelve of the candidates named by the Aam Aadmi Party will contest from constituencies where the Congress has also fielded candidates.
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The Aam Aadmi Party on Monday released its first list of 20 candidates for the upcoming Haryana Assembly election. No announcement has been made so far on the party’s alliance talks with the Congress.
On September 3, the Congress said that it was negotiating an alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party for the election in the state. However, 12 of the candidates named by the Aam Aadmi Party will contest from constituencies where the Congress has also fielded candidates.
The Congress has announced names for 41 Assembly seats so far. Haryana has a total of 90 Assembly seats.
On Monday, Aam Aadmi Party’s Haryana unit chief Sushil Gupta said that his party would contest all 90 seats, NDTV reported.
“AAP [Aam Aadmi Party] has made its decision,” he said. “We have gone ahead and announced candidates for 20 seats [with a] further list to come as well. We are confident about our outcome on all 90 seats.”
Gupta said that his party showed “patience” and released its list after that. “We were a partner in INDIA alliance [but] at national level.”
The Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party are constituents of the Opposition INDIA bloc that was formed ahead of the Lok Sabha elections to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance. However, they are opponents in Punjab...
