The Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party have reached a ‘principal understanding’ to ally ahead of next month’s Haryana Assembly election, sources told NDTV Tuesday evening.

The next step is to discuss seat-sharing, for which Rajya Sabha MPs Raghav Chadha for the AAP and KC Venugopal for the Congress will meet either tonight or tomorrow.

All of this comes hours after it emerged that Rahul Gandhi suggested the INDIA bloc members continue a partnership formed before the April-June general election. In Haryana the Congress and AAP contested the state’s 10 Lok Sabha seats 9:1, with the former winning five and the latter none.

Mr Gandhi, sources said, is keen to sweep as many of the non-BJP votes as possible.

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The UN agency says localised pauses in the fighting have allowed 161,030 children to be inoculated. 

​The UN agency says localised pauses in the fighting have allowed 161,030 children to be inoculated.