INDIA Alliance

The top leaders of the INDIA opposition alliance are set to meet this month and seat-sharing for the upcoming elections is going to be on the agenda, said sources.

Taking a swipe at the INDIA bloc, senior BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Thursday claimed there was an ongoing tussle among the alliance partners and said PM Modi's "arithmetic of success" has shattered the "mathematics of the opposition"

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said Wednesday that Congress MP Rahul Gandhi reached out amid furore this week over the postponement of an INDIA bloc meeting scheduled for that day.

The really significant political divide is between the BJP and its allies on the one hand and the INDIA bloc on the other.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has laughed off reports the opposition INDIA group meeting in Delhi - scheduled by the Congress for this afternoon - was postponed because he refused to attend.

The BJP's victory in the assembly polls in three states is not the defeat of the INDIA bloc as the opposition parties did not contest the polls together, National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah said.

A meeting of the INDIA opposition bloc to take place in Delhi tomorrow - called for by Congress boss Mallikarjun Kharge - has been postponed, sources told NDTV Tuesday afternoon, after three senior leaders RSVP-ed "no".

Six months ago, few leaders, even in the Congress and the INDIA alliance, would have thought that the mighty K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) and his Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) would be defeated in Telangana.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Samajwadi Party boss Akhilesh Yadav will both skip Wednesday's INDIA bloc meeting, sources told NDTV this morning.

Senior Congress leader Manickam Tagore underscored the importance of alliances and said it is the state level leaders in the Hindi heartland who need to understand it.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will not attend the next INDIA alliance coordination meeting on Wednesday.

The first big takeaway for the Congress, and the opposition as a whole, from the results in Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Telangana is that the post-Karnataka momentum is lost, or at least has taken a huge hit.

In a strong criticism of the Congress, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday said the grand old party's "greed and lust for power" were the reasons for its defeat in the Hindi heartland states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh

Its poor performance in the Hindi heartland and victory in Telangana versus a regional party has complicated matters for a fragile opposition alliance.

PDP Chief Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday said winning or losing elections in part of a democracy and the Opposition alliance will come up with a better performance in the Lok Sabha elections next year.

The top leaders of the INDIA opposition alliance are set to meet this month and seat-sharing for the upcoming elections is going to be on the agenda, said sources.

Taking a swipe at the INDIA bloc, senior BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Thursday claimed there was an ongoing tussle among the alliance partners and said PM Modi's "arithmetic of success" has shattered the "mathematics of the opposition"

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said Wednesday that Congress MP Rahul Gandhi reached out amid furore this week over the postponement of an INDIA bloc meeting scheduled for that day.

The really significant political divide is between the BJP and its allies on the one hand and the INDIA bloc on the other.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has laughed off reports the opposition INDIA group meeting in Delhi - scheduled by the Congress for this afternoon - was postponed because he refused to attend.

The BJP's victory in the assembly polls in three states is not the defeat of the INDIA bloc as the opposition parties did not contest the polls together, National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah said.

A meeting of the INDIA opposition bloc to take place in Delhi tomorrow - called for by Congress boss Mallikarjun Kharge - has been postponed, sources told NDTV Tuesday afternoon, after three senior leaders RSVP-ed "no".

Six months ago, few leaders, even in the Congress and the INDIA alliance, would have thought that the mighty K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) and his Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) would be defeated in Telangana.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Samajwadi Party boss Akhilesh Yadav will both skip Wednesday's INDIA bloc meeting, sources told NDTV this morning.

Senior Congress leader Manickam Tagore underscored the importance of alliances and said it is the state level leaders in the Hindi heartland who need to understand it.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will not attend the next INDIA alliance coordination meeting on Wednesday.

The first big takeaway for the Congress, and the opposition as a whole, from the results in Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Telangana is that the post-Karnataka momentum is lost, or at least has taken a huge hit.

In a strong criticism of the Congress, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday said the grand old party's "greed and lust for power" were the reasons for its defeat in the Hindi heartland states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh

Its poor performance in the Hindi heartland and victory in Telangana versus a regional party has complicated matters for a fragile opposition alliance.

PDP Chief Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday said winning or losing elections in part of a democracy and the Opposition alliance will come up with a better performance in the Lok Sabha elections next year.