The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress have agreed to form a coalition against the BJP in Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Goa, and Chandigarh.
The Congress and the AAP are part of the INDIA bloc, which was created by opposition parties to compete against the BJP in the Lok Sabha elections.
Following the news, BJP leader Manoj Tiwari blasted the INDIA alliance partners, claiming that the people of Delhi “know their reality”.
“Chor chor mausere bhai (birds of a feather flock together),” Mr Tiwai added, making a jab at the AAP and Congress.
“Arvind Kejriwal and AAP had ousted Congress from Delhi and Punjab and now the Chief Minister is sharing the stage with Rahul Gandhi,” he told reporters.
Mr Tiwari said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP have done a lot of work for the common man. “BJP and Narendra Modi are in everyone’s hearts. People of Delhi will decide everything because today it is clear that the top leaders of AAP and Congress are one and the same,” he said.
In Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal’s party will run for four of the seven seats: West Delhi, South Delhi, East Delhi, and New Delhi. The remaining three – North East Delhi, North West Delhi, and Chandni Chowk – will attend the grand old party.
AAP and Congress officials jointly announced the seat-sharing plan a few weeks after the opposition’s INDIA alliance secured their first electoral victory in the Chandigarh mayoral election.
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