AAP wants to contest 6 seats in Delhi, offer 1 to Cong
The party announced its candidates for two Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat and one in Goa
PTI
New Delhi, 13 Feb
The AAP on Tuesday
said it wants to contest six seats in Delhi in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls and
offer just one to the Congress, asking the senior INDIA bloc ally to conclude
seat-sharing talks at the earliest.
The party also
announced its candidates for two Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat and one in Goa.
Addressing a press
conference here after a meeting of the party's Political Affairs Committee
(PAC), AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sandeep Pathak said Venzy Viegas will contest from
the South Goa seat, while Chaitar Vasava and Umesh Bhai Makwana from Bharuch
and Bhavnagar seats in Gujarat respectively.
He said the AAP has
demanded eight Lok seats in Gujarat (total 26) from the INDIA bloc which is
proportionate to the party's vote share in the last assembly poll.
"We want to
contest six seats in Delhi and offer one to the Congress for the polls based on
the vote shares in recent elections. We are not announcing any candidate for
Delhi at the moment but if seat-sharing talks do not happen quickly, we will
announce the candidates for the six seats in Delhi also," Pathak said.
He reiterated that
they are part of the opposition grouping INDIA.
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