Alliance Talks With AAP In Primitive Mode, Decision In 2-3 Days, Congress Haryana In-Charge

New Delhi: All India Congress Committee (AICC) in-charge of Haryana, Deepak Babaria has said that alliance talks between the ‘Grand Old Party’ and AAP for the Haryana Assembly elections are in the primitive mode adding they are exploring it and if there is any development in the next 2-3 days, it will be announced.

Meanwhile, Congress leader Ajay Maken said that no discussions were held on their party's alliance with AAP during the Central Election Committee (CEC) meeting.

As per reports, the Congress and AAP are engaged in seat-sharing talks for the Haryana Assembly polls with hard bargaining from both sides, even as the Congress' central election committee has cleared the names of candidates for 66 seats out of 90 till Tuesday.

While the Aam Aadmi Party is demanding 10 seats, the Congress is ready to give only seven seats, sources in AAP said.

They said senior party leader and Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha and Congress' KC Venugopal have already held two rounds of talks and are likely to meet again in a day or two.

"The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is demanding 10 seats. However, Congress is ready to give only seven out of the total of 90 seats. AAP has claimed one seat from each of the 10 Lok Sabha constituencies," said a source in the Arvind Kejriwal-led party.

After a meeting of the Congress Central Election Committee, AICC general secretary in-charge Deepak Babaria said the alliance talks were in a primitive stage and possibilities were being explored.

"We will inform you about the developments," he added, without elaborating.

"The CEC meeting of AICC was held today, in which proposals given by the Haryana screening committee were discussed.

"Out of 90 seats, 49 were discussed yesterday and today, the conclusions of the screening committee regarding the remaining 41 seats were put before the CEC... Earlier 34 seats (candidates) were finalised and today 32 out of 41 seats have been finalised," Babaria told reporters.

He said that tentatively by Thursday, the Congress would finalise its list.

Babaria said a sub-committee had been formed to review the pending seats. He asserted the panel was not formed for alliance talks.

Babaria said he, Ajay Maken, TS Singhdeo and one more person were part of the sub-committee.