After the Lok Sabha elections, Congress and AAP part ways, will fight elections separately in Haryana and Delhi

New Delhi: Although the Aam Aadmi Party, which came to power in Delhi by defeating the Congress, had decided to fight the Lok Sabha elections together by joining hands in some states including Delhi, but after the Lok Sabha, Congress and AAP will not go together in the upcoming assembly elections. However, both of them had fought the Lok Sabha elections separately in Punjab. There has already been talk of alliance with Congress from AAP, but now Congress is also confirming this. Congress media department in-charge Jairam Ramesh said that there does not seem to be much scope for alliance with AAP in the assembly elections of Delhi and Haryana. However, the India Alliance will remain intact in the assembly elections of Maharashtra and Jharkhand.AAP and Congress do not want alliance in Haryana and Delhi
It is noteworthy that elections are to be held in Haryana, Maharashtra, Jharkhand and Jammu Kashmir in the coming days, while elections are to be held in Delhi early next year. Both Congress and AAP do not want an alliance in Haryana and Delhi. Actually, it is deeply ingrained in the Congress that wherever AAP has grown, it has won by taking the vote bank of Congress. Delhi and Punjab are examples of this. This was the reason that there were a lot of difficulties in coordination between the two parties in the Lok Sabha. However, both the parties have their own compulsions regarding the upcoming assembly. After winning five seats in Haryana Lok Sabha, the spirits of Congress are very high. Congress is quite excited in view of the ten-year anti-incumbency against BJP. It is looking at the possibility of victory for itself this time. In such a situation, it does not want to prepare the ground for AAP by making any kind of alliance with AAP there. At the same time, Congress understands that the alliance with AAP in Kurukshetra in Haryana did not work on the ground.

AAP does not want alliance with Congress even in Delhi
On the other hand, AAP also does not want to join hands with Congress in Delhi and give it a grassroots base. In fact, despite putting in all its efforts in the three elections held in Delhi since 2013, Congress has not been able to win even a single seat. BJP has become the main opposition party against AAP in the Assembly. In such a situation, AAP is not ready to give any kind of lifeline to Congress by joining hands with it. However, AAP’s dedicated vote bank is the same which used to be the solid vote bank of Congress.

Congress will be part of the alliance in Maharashtra and Jharkhand
On the other hand, Congress indicated that Congress will be a part of the alliance in Maharashtra and Jharkhand. In Maharashtra, Congress performed well in the recent elections by becoming a part of Mahavikas Aghadi. There, Congress is not only together with Shiv Sena, UBT and NCP, SC for almost four and a half years, but these three parties are working in mutual harmony not only in Maharashtra but also at the national level. Its effect was also seen in the recent elections. Not only Congress, Mahavikas Aghadi is seeing better chances of its victory in Maharashtra in the upcoming elections. Even though the Congress-JMS alliance could not perform very well in Jharkhand, Congress is hopeful that their alliance will perform well in Jharkhand.