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AICC general secretary Jairam Ramesh further stated that the INDIA bloc will fight together in states where Congress leaders and other alliance partners agree to an understanding. (Image: PTI/File)
Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh stressed that the INDIA alliance would fight elections together in Maharashtra and Jharkhand
Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Thursday denied any possibility of the INDIA bloc fighting elections together in Delhi and Haryana. “There does not appear to be much scope (for alliance) in Delhi and Haryana,” Ramesh said.
He, however, stressed that the INDIA alliance would fight elections together in Maharashtra and Jharkhand.
AICC general secretary Jairam Ramesh further stated that the INDIA bloc will fight together in states where Congress leaders and other alliance partners agree to an understanding.
“There is no INDIA ‘janbandhan’ in Punjab. In Haryana, we had given one seat to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the Lok Sabha polls but I don’t think that INDIA janbandhan will be there for assembly polls.,” he said.
Ramesh further highlighted the alliance between Shiv Sena (UBT) and NCP (SCP) with Congress in Maharashtra and that of JMM in Jharkhand and said, “Where state Congress leaders and the respective alliance parties agree, there will be an alliance.”
Jharkhand, Haryana and Maharashtra are slated to go for polls later this year, while assembly elections in Delhi will be held early next year.
(With PTI inputs)