Divya Delhi: Delhi Assembly Elections: Former Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal ruled out a Congress partnership for the 2025 Delhi Assembly Elections. The move stunned the Opposition's INDIA alliance, which sought to overthrow the BJP. At a Delhi press conference, Kejriwal indicated there will be no alliance. In October, the AAP left the INDIA group and ran alone in the Haryana Assembly elections. AAP and Congress tried to form an alliance in Haryana, but seat-sharing talks failed. Kejriwal's decision follows the Maha Vikas Aghadi's huge vote thrashing in Maharashtra this month, which also included Congress, drawing criticism from its partners. This year, the Congress and AAP contested the Delhi Lok Sabha elections together under the INDIA bloc. Both parties campaigned for each other. Kejriwal, who was on interim bail for election campaigning, also campaigned for the Congress and its Delhi Assembly Opposition party. On 4 of 7 Delhi parliamentary constituencies, AAP ran and Congress on 3. The BJP won all 7 city seats, hence neither party could create the account. Punjab, unlike Delhi, had the AAP contest all 13 Lok Sabha seats without the Congress. Punjab is dominated by the AAP. In the 2022 Punjab Assembly elections, Kejriwal's party won 92 of 117 seats, ousting Congress. Soon after Kejriwal's huge statement, the Bharatiya Janata Party made a "friendship with benefits" joke at the AAP and Congress and highlighted Opposition unity gaps in the state and nation.