The AAP and the Congress forged an alliance on Monday for the upcoming Chandigarh mayoral polls.
Under the arrangement, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will fight for the mayor’s seat while the Congress will contest the posts of senior deputy mayor and deputy mayor, senior Congress leader Pawan Kumar Bansal said here.
The development came amid the two constituents of the INDIA bloc holding talks over seat sharing for this year’s Lok Sabha polls. But the state units of both parties in Punjab appear reluctant so far to make any concession to the other side.
The Congress and the AAP have been separately claiming that they will win all 13 Lok Sabha seats in Punjab.
After announcing the alliance of his party with the AAP for the January 18 polls, Bansal said, “This is the beginning of the end of the BJP’s misrule in Chandigarh.”
Chandigarh Congress president H S Lucky said AAP candidate Kuldeep Kumar Tita will contest the polls for the mayor’s post while Congress nominees Gurpreet Singh Gabi and Nirmala Devi will fight for the posts of senior deputy mayor and deputy mayor respectively.
Congress candidate Jasbir Bunty has withdrawn his nomination for the mayor’s post.