Congress leader Mumtaz Patel confessed to "disappointment", but dismissed talk of "betrayal", after the Lok Sabha seat in Gujarat's Bharuch - held by her father, Ahmed Patel, between 1977 and 1984 - was given to the Aam Aadmi Party as part of a pan-India accord before the general election.

Ms Patel told NDTV she understood the Congress faced certain compulsions in negotiating the seat-sharing deal with the AAP, which will also contest Gujarat's Bhavnagar. The Congress will contest the other 24, as the two bid to stop the Bharatiya Janata Party from a third successive clean sweep.