Overview
- Girish Chodankar and Vijai Sardesai held a leader-level meeting to open exploratory talks about a possible electoral alliance against the BJP.
- Sardesai said he initiated the outreach in fulfillment of a prior promise and visited Chodankar with two colleagues to start discussions without ego or hierarchy.
- Both leaders framed the talks as a response to public demand for a united opposition and said the process will be transparent and keep voters informed.
- The next steps are committee-level meetings within both parties and consultations with Congress central leadership before a second, more detailed meeting to work out seat sharing.
- Congress indicated it will seek ties with other like-minded parties as part of a wider strategy for the 2027 Assembly polls, with AAP saying it is open to a tie-up.