Trinamool Congress chief Derek O’Brien reaffirmed the get together’s choice to contest all 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal, together with a number of seats in Assam and one in Meghalaya. This assertion follows studies of revived talks between TMC and Congress for a doable alliance in West Bengal. Despite preliminary claims of going solo, Congress said that discussions with TMC have been again on observe. Meanwhile, Congress has shaped alliances in Uttar Pradesh with the Samajwadi Party and in Maharashtra with Shiv Sena and NCP. Talks for seat-sharing are ongoing with allies in Maharashtra. Dig deeper
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee. (ANI)
Senior Congress chief Salman Khurshid, regardless of the Farrukhabad seat being allotted to the Samajwadi Party (SP) in a seat-sharing deal, appealed to voters for his or her help, sparking speculations round his subsequent transfer. Khurshid received from Farrukhabad in 2009 however confronted defeats in subsequent elections. The SP-Congress settlement assigns 63 seats to SP and 17 to Congress in Uttar Pradesh. Khurshid clarified his social media publish shouldn’t be “interpreted unnecessarily”, including that he was a member of the Congress committee that held seat-sharing talks with the SP, and has no complaints. Dig deeper
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