Delhi elections 2025: Is AAP-Congress reunion on the cards?

Until Tuesday there was complete clarity that Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress, former allies in Delhi, will go it alone in the 2025 state elections.

But then an image came by, which triggered talks that the two might be rekindling their past affections.

The image was posted by Nationalist Congress Party-SP leader Supriya Sule.

It showcased AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal, his trusted parliamentary aide and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh, his lawyer in the excise scam case and Congress leader Abhishek Singhvi and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's right hand man Gurdeep Sappal sitting with NCP-SP chief Sharad Pawar and other senior opposition leaders.

Supriya Sule captioned the image saying, "Joined Hon. Pawar Saheb in a pivotal meeting with @ArvindKejriwal Ji, Sanjay Singh Ji, and @NCPSpeaks MPs, MLAs, and assembly candidates. Deliberated on critical issues impacting the nation and charted a strategic way forward."

The frame became the cause of fresh talks that perhaps Congress and AAP were reconsidering their Delhi poll strategy and may be in talks for a pre-poll alliance.

In 2013, when Kejriwal contested his first election in Delhi and fell short of majority, then the Congress led by ex-CM Sheila Dikshit backed him. It was an alliance the former Congress strategist and former media chief of the party Janardan Dwivedi had warned against.

The result was the Congress lost its base in Delhi where Sheila Dikshit had been a three-term CM. In the next two polls, Kejriwal returned with a thumping majority with Congress candidates even losing deposits.

That said, AAP this time said will contest the Delhi polls alone. This after Congress and AAP talks for a pre-poll arrangement in the Haryana Assembly polls failed.

Kejriwal again made it clear today that AAP was going alone in Delhi. But as they say in politics --Nothing is final till it is final.