Days after the Mumbai Summit of the INDIA bloc saw the allies resolved to announce seat sharing for all States at the earliest for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the Aam Aadmi Party has decided to strike out alone in the upcoming Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh by announcing ten candidates each for the two States.
In Chhattisgarh, the Congress is seeking a second term; in Madhya Pradesh, after 18 years of BJP governance, the party is hoping to return to power. After the initial hesitation, AAP has been an integral part of the INDIA bloc. The bloc aims to have a common candidate against the BJP in selected seats for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
The party’s national convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has visited Chhattisgarh four times since March and is slated to visit again on September 16. The visits came even as he attended all three INDIA meetings in Patna, Bangalore and Mumbai.
