AAP Releases Fourth List of Candidates for Haryana Assembly Elections Amid Alliance Tensions

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has released the fourth list of candidates on Wednesday for Haryana Assembly elections. AAP's fourth list contains the names of 21 candidates. Sukhbir Malik has been given ticket from Panipat Rural. Former World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) wrestler Kavita Dalal has been fielded from Julana. Congress has fielded wrestler Vinesh Phogat from this seat, while BJP has bet on Captain Yogesh Bairagi. In such a situation, there is going to be a triangular contest on Julana seat. Along with this, AAP has bet on Joga Singh against CM Naib Singh Saini on Ladwa seat. So far AAP has announced the names of candidates on 61 seats. The party has announced to field candidates on all 90 seats.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Haryana released its third list of candidates late on Tuesday night. It contains the names of 11 candidates. Earlier, the party had released the second list of 9 candidates on Tuesday morning. The second list included the name of former minister Professor Chhatrapal Singh. Chhatrapal Singh, who left BJP and joined AAP, has been given ticket from Barwala in Hisar. 

On September 9, AAP released the first list of candidates. It had the names of 20 candidates. AAP has unilaterally announced the names of the candidates at a time when there was talk of its alliance with Congress. AAP had given Congress time till Monday to clarify the situation regarding the alliance and seat-sharing formula. Voting will be held on October 5 for 90 seats of Haryana Assembly. The election results will be declared on October 8.

For the last few days, AAP's Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha and Congress Lok Sabha MP from Kerala's Alappuzha seat KC Venugopal were talking about the alliance. There have been 3 meetings between Congress-AAP regarding the alliance. Under the INDIA alliance, AAP was demanding 10 seats from Congress. Whereas Congress had told AAP to take 4 to 5 seats. Congress has offered 4+1 formula i.e. 5 seats to AAP. These include Jind, Kalayat, Panipat (rural), Gurugram and Pehowa seats. However, AAP was adamant on the demand for 10 seats including the Old Faridabad seat.