NAGPUR: As the final nominations are in, it has become clear that Congress has failed to secure enough seats on the MVA bargaining table. Congress managed to eke out around 100 seats in the MVA alliance. In comparison, BJP walked away with around 150 in the seat-sharing haggling match within the Mahayuti. While it’s clear…
Leader of opposition Vijay Wadettiwar MUMBAI: A day after Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut declared that MVA partners Congress, NCP (SP) and UBT Sena would contest 85 seats each, a top Congress politician said that his party would contest 104 seats, while UBT Sena and NCP-SP would fight from 94 and 84 seats respectively.“The…
NEW DELHI: The Communist Party of India (CPI) on Tuesday released the list of candidates for the upcoming Jharkhand assembly elections as the party was unsatisfied with the seats offered to it by the INDIA bloc allies, which included CM Hemant Soren’s JMM and the Congress party.After breaking ranks with the INDIA bloc in Jharkhand,…
Hemant Soren (left), and Tejashwi Yadav. (PTI) RANCHI: While the NDA camp has avoided a major inter-party bickering over its seat-sharing formula for the Jharkhand assembly polls, infighting in the INDIA bloc seems to be out in the open. RJD, a junior constituent of the bloc, threatened to go solo but stopped short of breaking…
MUMBAI: A day after a virtual breakdown in seat-sharing talks in Maha Vikas Aghadi with Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut and Congress‘s Nana Patole taking potshots at each other and Uddhav Thackeray saying things should not be stretched to breaking point, AICC in-charge for Maharashtra Ramesh Chennithala met Uddhav and NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar in…
RANCHI: INDIA bloc parties in Jharkhand slammed Election Commission (EC) for holding assembly elections in the state along with that of Maharashtra but claimed that they were ready to slug it out with BJP-led NDA, which has welcomed the announcement of poll dates.JMM, Congress, and CPI (ML-L) said the announcement showed that EC was in…
NEW DELHI: After a week marked by flip-flops over forging an alliance in Haryana, Sunday was marked by a ‘take it or leave it’ offer from Congress to AAP. A likelihood of a tie-up in Haryana between the two parties is hinged on AAP accepting Congress’s twin conditions on number of seats and specific constituencies.Congress…
NEW DELHI: Amid reports of Congress-AAP tie up for Haryana elections, grand old party leader Deepak Babaria said on Wednesday that the alliance will only happen if there’s a “win-win” situation for both the parties. He said that the agreement would be finalised within two-three days, else the party would give up on the alliance…
NEW DELHI: People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday said that her party will contest the upcoming assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir for the state’s dignity and a permanent resolution rather than statehood or seat sharing.During the release of the party’s manifesto, Mehbooba said, “For me, this election (upcoming Assembly elections in…
