Congress President M Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday said his party has held talks with all alliance partners of INDIA bloc on seat-sharing for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, and reached an understanding with some of them, while the dialogue with others is at the final stages. He said the Congress has already begun preparation for … Read more
On INDIA alliance, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor says, “This whole alliance & seat-sharing is being discussed on a state-by-state basis. No one is going to have a one-size-fits-all solution. In each state, the story is going to be different…I think we are all focused on the imperative need to change the Union govt & that … Read more
The Trinamool Congress is unlikely to join the Rahul Gandhi-led ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ when it enters West Bengal on January 25, a senior party leader said on Wednesday. The Yatra, currently in Assam, is scheduled to enter West Bengal through Bakshirhat in Cooch Behar district on January 25. After a recess of two days … Read more
The first meeting on seat sharing between INDIA bloc allies Congress and Aam Aadmi Party saw both sides playing hardball to hammer out a formula for further engagement. Congress member Mukul Wasnik-led national alliance committee initiated talks with AAP on Monday. At the outset, Congress red flagged AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal’s unilateral declaration that his … Read more
The Maharashtra Congress is looking to contest about 25 Lok Sabha seats, this even as the Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray (UBT) faction has taken aim at the Congress saying that the party can contest all the 48 seats if it wants and that there is not a single leader in the state Congress equipped to take … Read more
