Bjp Up Seat-sharing

The race to conclude seat-share deals in Tamil Nadu - where the political landscape is dominated by the ruling DMK and opposition AIADMK, with the Congress and BJP playing second fiddle - is picking up pace with the election now just weeks away.

Lok Sabha Election: The Rashtriya Lok Dal on Monday named candidates for the Baghpat and Bijnor Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh that were allocated to it as part of a seat-share plan with the Bharatiya Janata Party.

UP Assembly Election: The BJP will ally with the Nishad Party and the Apna Dal (S) for next month's Uttar Pradesh election, the ruling party said Wednesday evening, although it refused to reveal seat-sharing details.

A meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party's Core Committee on the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls was held on Wednesday where discussions took place on seat sharing with allies.

The BJP today finalised the seat-sharing deal with Apna Dal (Sonelal) for the national elections, weeks after the ally threatened to quit the National Democratic Alliance.

The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha has decided to fight the upcoming Lok Sabha and state assembly elections in Odisha in alliance with the Congress, news agency PTI reported today. Seat-sharing negotiations will be completed in four days, it added.

Union Minister Anupriya Patel of the Apna Dal, a crucial ally of the BJP in Uttar Pradesh, has threatened to quit the National Democratic Alliance over being not heard by the BJP on issues that it had raised.

The BJP today said that it expected Union minister Upendra Kushwaha to maintain decorum and sanctity of the alliance and cautioned the RLSP chief against joining hands with "corrupt, casteist and family-based" parties like the Congress and the RJD. The BJP's Bihar unit made the remarks in the light of the barrage of attacks launched by Mr Kushwaha ...

Under pressure from ally Nitish Kumar to settle the thorny issue of seat sharing in Bihar in next year's general elections, the BJP has come up with a first draft of the plan, giving itself a lion's share of the state's 40 seats. But a deal appears a long way off, with Nitish Kumar's leaders hinting that the BJP needs to get back to the drawing boa...

The National Democratic Alliance is struggling to retain its cohesiveness while carving up the seats in Bihar. The BJP wants to contest maximum number seats so it is assured of winning at least 122 - the halfway mark in the 243-member assembly - to reduce dependence on allies.

NDA allies today put up an united front amid vocal demands being made by some parties on their share of seats in Bihar polls but the crucial issue of seat-sharing was not discussed at their maiden joint meeting chaired by BJP president Amit Shah.

Late on Wednesday night, the BJP drew up a list of 119 seats that the party would like to contest in next month's state elections in Maharashtra.

Less than a fortnight after 11 parties stitched up a third front to take on the Congress and the BJP in the general elections beginning next month, it is coming apart at the seams with J Jayalalithaa refusing to give in to ally Left's demand for six seats in a seat-sharing pact in Tamil Nadu.

The race to conclude seat-share deals in Tamil Nadu - where the political landscape is dominated by the ruling DMK and opposition AIADMK, with the Congress and BJP playing second fiddle - is picking up pace with the election now just weeks away.

Lok Sabha Election: The Rashtriya Lok Dal on Monday named candidates for the Baghpat and Bijnor Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh that were allocated to it as part of a seat-share plan with the Bharatiya Janata Party.

UP Assembly Election: The BJP will ally with the Nishad Party and the Apna Dal (S) for next month's Uttar Pradesh election, the ruling party said Wednesday evening, although it refused to reveal seat-sharing details.

A meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party's Core Committee on the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls was held on Wednesday where discussions took place on seat sharing with allies.

The BJP today finalised the seat-sharing deal with Apna Dal (Sonelal) for the national elections, weeks after the ally threatened to quit the National Democratic Alliance.

The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha has decided to fight the upcoming Lok Sabha and state assembly elections in Odisha in alliance with the Congress, news agency PTI reported today. Seat-sharing negotiations will be completed in four days, it added.

Union Minister Anupriya Patel of the Apna Dal, a crucial ally of the BJP in Uttar Pradesh, has threatened to quit the National Democratic Alliance over being not heard by the BJP on issues that it had raised.

The BJP today said that it expected Union minister Upendra Kushwaha to maintain decorum and sanctity of the alliance and cautioned the RLSP chief against joining hands with "corrupt, casteist and family-based" parties like the Congress and the RJD. The BJP's Bihar unit made the remarks in the light of the barrage of attacks launched by Mr Kushwaha ...

Under pressure from ally Nitish Kumar to settle the thorny issue of seat sharing in Bihar in next year's general elections, the BJP has come up with a first draft of the plan, giving itself a lion's share of the state's 40 seats. But a deal appears a long way off, with Nitish Kumar's leaders hinting that the BJP needs to get back to the drawing boa...

The National Democratic Alliance is struggling to retain its cohesiveness while carving up the seats in Bihar. The BJP wants to contest maximum number seats so it is assured of winning at least 122 - the halfway mark in the 243-member assembly - to reduce dependence on allies.

NDA allies today put up an united front amid vocal demands being made by some parties on their share of seats in Bihar polls but the crucial issue of seat-sharing was not discussed at their maiden joint meeting chaired by BJP president Amit Shah.

Late on Wednesday night, the BJP drew up a list of 119 seats that the party would like to contest in next month's state elections in Maharashtra.

Less than a fortnight after 11 parties stitched up a third front to take on the Congress and the BJP in the general elections beginning next month, it is coming apart at the seams with J Jayalalithaa refusing to give in to ally Left's demand for six seats in a seat-sharing pact in Tamil Nadu.