The Delhi Congress and the AAP   on Friday met to discuss the alliance’s strategy in Delhi for the Lok Sabha elections. Top leaders of AAP and Delhi Congress met on Friday where all the coordinators from both the parties met with each other to ensure smooth collaboration ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha 2024 elections slated to be held in the national capital on May 25.

After the meeting, Delhi Congress Interim president Devender Yadav, said that the meeting was held to plan better coordination between the workers of the parties. “Today, we held a meeting in order to make better coordination between the workers of both the parties. We have taken some important decisions in the meeting. Seven coordinators from both the parties have been elected,” Yadav stated.

Senior party leaders including Chairman of party’s Election Management and Co-ordination Committee Subhash Chopra, Media Head of the Delhi Congress Anil Bhardwaj, were among the Congress leaders who attended the meeting. While MLA and state-level coordinator Durgesh Pathak, MLA Dilip Pandey including other party leaders attended the meeting from AAP.

After the meeting, Pathak said, “When the alliance was made, it was very important that how the coordination will take place. For that a meeting of all the coordinators was held here on Friday.”

Under a seat-sharing arrangement between the two constituents of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) of the opposition parties, the Congress has fielded candidates from three of the seven seats while the AAP is contesting the remaining four. Polling is scheduled in the national capital on May 25 in the sixth round of the seven-phase elections.

To put forward a united front, Pathak while checking the availability of AAP and Congress leaders, will accordingly make a schedule for them to participate in each other’s campaigns. Further, he will organise joint padayatras wherever necessary, and cover maximum ground through door-to-door campaigns. To ensure smooth communication, he will share the AAP’s media strategy, issues and ground intelligence with the grand old party.

He will also ensure that Congress leaders participate in the constituencies where AAP is contesting. The responsibility of coordination in the New Delhi Lok Sabha constituency has been given to AAP MLA Rajesh Gupta while the West Delhi coordination will be looked after by AAP MLA Naresh Balyan. AAP MLA Dinesh Mohaniya will be the coordinator for South Delhi Lok Sabha constituency, AAP leader Pawan Sharma for Chandni Chowk and AAP leader Mukesh Ahlawat for North West Delhi.

AAP Burari MLA Sanjeev Jha will be coordinator for the North East Delhi constituency and AAP Timarpur MLA Dilip Pandey for East Delhi.