Image Source : PTI RLD MP Jayant Singh Chaudhary.
Lok Sabha elections 2024: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Jayant Chaudhary’s Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) could enter into an alliance in Uttar Pradesh for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, sources have mentioned.
According to stories, the seat-sharing between BJP and RLD has nearly been finalised.
Sources say that RLD will contest on two seats in Uttar Pradesh that are Baghpat and Bijnor. Besides this, it should additionally get one Rajya Sabha seat, and one MLC place.
The get together may also be accommodated within the Centre and State cupboard, sources mentioned. In the 2019 elections, RLD allied with Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party.
Speculations are additionally rife that BJP’s former ally Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) goes to rejoin the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in Punjab.
Talks on seat-sharing between BJP and SAD are advancing and a proper announcement could come within the coming days.
On speculations of Jayant Chaudhary-led RLD becoming a member of the BJP-led alliance in UP, Samajwadi get together chief Shivpal Singh Yadav mentioned, “I know Jayant and his father very well because I have worked with him… I hope that Jayant will not let the farmer’s protest weaken…”
Earlier, comparable sentiments had been echoed by Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav who mentioned he hopes that Jayant Chaudhary is not going to weaken the battle occurring for the ‘khushali’ (prosperity) of Uttar Pradesh.
The Samajwadi Party nationwide common secretary mentioned Jayant Chaudhary will stay with the I.N.D.I.A bloc and defeat the BJP within the common elections.
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Source: www.indiatvnews.com