Congress, the main opposition party in Haryana and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday jointly announced their pact for the forthcoming parliamentary polls. Declaring seat-sharing plans for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, both parties agreed to jointly contest in Haryana. Leaders of both parties hinted at working out joint campaigning in polls. Under the alliance, Congress has given Kurukshetra Lok Sabha seat to AAP in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections while Congress will field its candidate on the remaining 9 Lok Sabha seats under the alliance. Political analysts are of the opinion that the alliance between the two before the Lok Sabha election battle is certain to change the political scenario of the state. One of the congress bigwigs on anonymity said that the AAP had staked claim on three Lok Sabha seats including Kurukshetra, Ambala and Sirsa adjoining Punjab but no consensus could be reached between both parties as the Congress refused the same stating AAP is still an entrant in the state politics as it lacks electoral support in the state and count not contest even a single elections successfully.
Since the AAP succeeded in forming Gove in Punjab, the party leaders were believing that the party would gain political mileage from the same in the Lok Sabha seats of Haryana bordering Punjab. But Congress out rightly rejected the same citing weaken position of the AAP in Haryana. Among aforementioned Lok Sabha seats, It is pertinent to mention that Ambala and Sirsa seats are reserved for Scheduled Caste and in this series , after brainstorming on all aspects, Congress and AAP agreed on one seat instead of three seats. While reacting to the alliance between AAP and the Congress leading to new political developments in Haryana, Leader of Opposition and Congress heavyweight Bhupendra Singh Hooda said that being the supreme authority to take final call pertaining to any matter, the party high command had decided to contest in alliance.
While reacting to the new development surfaced on February 25 in terms of alliance, Anurag Dhanda who holds the portfolio of state vice president of the AAP said that the ruling BJP has left no stone unturned to violate the constitution making misuse of government machinery. The country is going through a tough time. The ruling BJP is crushing all institutions one by one, and the way electoral malpractices are being done, opposition leaders are being put behind bars, it clearly indicates dictatorship of the ruling faction. Through this alliance,, we will bring the BJP regime to end. It is noteworthy before 2014, the main opposition party Congress had dominated the Kurukshetra Lok Sabha seat willing polls from 1977 to 2014, , but in 2014,party candidate failed to emerge victorious the during the Modi wave, Kurukshetra seat has the highest number of Jat voters but for a long time no leader from the Jat community has emerged as the winner here.
