As the speculation of a possible alliance between the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) stretches further without any announcements by either of the parties, Odisha BJP Chief Manmohan Samal dropped a hint after his return from Delhi on Thursday morning. Upon asked about the meeting in Delhi on the possible …
Sources in the INDIA alliance had earlier indicated that talks were going well. New Delhi: The joy in the INDIA bloc over seat-sharing breakthroughs may prove to be short-lived, with the Trinamool Congress reiterating that it will contest all 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal. The party’s snub to the Congress comes after a …
New Delhi: When Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor Arvind Kejriwal met Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge here on Saturday, the political significance of the meeting was not lost on anyone. Seat sharing between political parties is arduous and the meeting signified that the two parties, bêtes noires in Delhi and Punjab, …
Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has refused to meet the five-member Congress committee to open seat-sharing talks for West Bengal ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Earlier, CM Mamata Banerjee offered “two seats” to Congress, which was readily rejected by Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury. On Thursday, the …
Former Union minister Salman Khurshid, a member of the Congress Working Committee, is also a part of the national alliance committee for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, in an interview, said that seat-sharing talks in Punjab won’t start anytime soon and that the party will first focus on low-hanging fruits. Edited excerpts: Congress leader Salman …