Relations between AAP-Congress are sometimes sour and sometimes sweet… Know why Kejriwal does not want to take risk in Delhi? – delhi assembly election 2025 arvind kejriwal aap congress alliance delhi pryd

Assembly elections are going to be held in Delhi in a few months. Aam Aadmi Party will contest alone in this election. Earlier it was believed that there could be an alliance between Aam Aadmi Party and Congress in the assembly elections. Aam Aadmi Party has made it clear that it will not form an alliance with anyone in the assembly elections.

Congress had also announced to field its candidates on all 70 seats a few days ago. Aam Aadmi Party has also declared the names of candidates for 11 out of 70 seats.

In Delhi, Aam Aadmi Party and Congress had jointly contested the Lok Sabha elections. Aam Aadmi Party contested elections on 4 seats and Congress on 3 seats. But this alliance could not win even a single seat. BJP had won all seven seats for the third consecutive election.

sometimes friendship and sometimes distance

Sometimes there is friendship between Aam Aadmi Party and Congress and sometimes distance remains. Arvind Kejriwal became the Chief Minister of Delhi for the first time with the support of Congress.

For the first time, Aam Aadmi Party entered the electoral fray in the 2013 assembly elections. In the first elections, Aam Aadmi Party won 28 out of 70 seats. BJP became the largest party by winning 31 seats. Congress got 8 seats. No party got majority. Later Aam Aadmi Party and Congress together formed the government. Arvind Kejriwal became the Chief Minister in this government.

But soon questions started being raised on this alliance. Questions were raised that the Aam Aadmi Party which had contested the elections against the Congress, later formed the government with it. Things started deteriorating in the alliance too and this government lasted only 49 days. On 14 February 2014, Arvind Kejriwal resigned and said that he was not able to pass the Jan Lokpal Bill as he did not have majority in the Assembly and would return with full majority after the re-election.

In the 2015 assembly elections, Aam Aadmi Party created history by winning 67 out of 70 seats. This was the first time that any party had got so many seats. Congress was completely wiped out.

When Kejriwal and Congress came together

Before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, 26 opposition parties together formed India Block. This alliance contested the elections against the BJP led NDA. Aam Aadmi Party and Congress are also part of India Bloc. Both of them together contested the Lok Sabha elections in Delhi, Haryana, Gujarat and Goa.

Of the 7 seats in Delhi, Aam Aadmi Party contested 4 and Congress contested 3. Aam Aadmi Party got 24 votes while Congress got about 19 percent votes. But both the parties could not win even a single seat.

In Haryana also, Aam Aadmi Party got one seat out of 10. But she could not win. Congress had won 5 seats. Congress’s vote share was about 44 percent. Aam Aadmi Party did not even get 4 percent votes. At the same time, both fought together in Gujarat and Goa. In both the places Congress could win only 1 seat each.

Whereas in Punjab, Aam Aadmi Party had contested the elections alone. In the 2022 assembly elections, Aam Aadmi Party had won 92 out of 117 seats. The party was expected to perform well here on its own. So he decided not to go with anyone. However, Aam Aadmi Party could not perform well in the Lok Sabha elections. It won only 3 out of 13 seats. Whereas, Congress won 7 seats.

In an interview last month, Delhi Congress state president Devendra Yadav had called the alliance with Aam Aadmi Party a ‘mistake’. He had said, mistake happens once and is not repeated again and again. Yadav had said that Congress has had to suffer the consequences of alliance with Aam Aadmi Party.

Things kept going on in Haryana

When Haryana assembly elections were held after the Lok Sabha elections, talks continued for a long time between the two parties regarding the alliance. However, the seat sharing formula could not be worked out between the two. Ultimately both the parties entered the field alone.

BJP formed the government for the third time by winning 48 out of 90 seats in Haryana. Congress got 37 seats. Aam Aadmi Party could not even open its account.

Aam Aadmi Party got 1.79 percent votes in this election. Congress got 39.09 percent votes and BJP 39.94 percent votes. That is, there was not much difference in the vote share of BJP and Congress. Experts believe that if there was an alliance between Aam Aadmi Party and Congress, BJP would not have got so much benefit.

There was a tremendous anti-incumbency wave against BJP in Haryana. Exit polls were also predicting the departure of BJP. But this time BJP achieved its biggest victory till date. Earlier in the 2014 elections, BJP had won 47 seats.

Why didn’t you come together in Delhi?

After the arrival of Aam Aadmi Party, Congress has continuously weakened in Delhi. Now Congress has become so weak here that it is not visible in the competition. The main contest in Delhi is considered to be between BJP and Aam Aadmi Party.

Congress had won 8 seats here in the 2013 assembly elections. But in 2015 and 2020, not a single Congress MLA could reach the Assembly. Its vote share is also continuously decreasing. In the 2013 elections, Congress got about 25 percent votes. It got only 9.7 percent votes in the 2015 elections and 4.3 percent votes in 2020.

More or less the situation is the same in Lok Sabha also. In the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, Congress had won all seven seats. He got more than 57 percent votes. But in the 2014 elections, Congress’ vote share dropped to 15 percent and the party could not win even a single seat. In 2019, Congress’s vote share increased to about 23 percent but it did not get even a single seat. In the same year, Congress got 19 percent votes in the Lok Sabha elections. This time also Congress could not win even a single seat here.

In a way, for Congress, Delhi has become one of those states where the party’s support base has reduced significantly. Congress has not been able to perform much in the last three assembly and Lok Sabha elections.

Perhaps this is the reason why Arvind Kejriwal does not want to take any risk in Delhi. They probably realize that if they enter into an alliance with Congress, they will suffer losses. Because instead of Congress’s votes being transferred to the alliance, it may go to BJP.