"They took someone's land and house on the promise of giving them jobs. They even didn't give that many jobs, as much as they took the assets from the people. Everyone is aware of the law-and-order situation during their tenure. CM Nitish Kumar was annoyed by this. BJP-NDA means employment,
Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) president Chirag Paswan on Wednesday said that the seat-sharing agreement with the BJP in Bihar for the Lok Sabha elections has been finalised and a formal announcement will be made soon
In yet another letter to the MVA (Maha Vikas Aghadi) leaders, former Lok Sabha MP Prakash Ambedkar, the grandson of Dr BR Ambedkar, expressed his desire to join the INDIA alliance ahead of the Lok Sabha elections 2024.
In the run-up to the elections for the state assembly and Lok Sabha, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and Jana Sena Party (JSP) sealed a seat-sharing pact in Andhra Pradesh on Monday.
Mamata Banerjee, while unveiling candidates for all 42 seats on Sunday, assured a formidable challenge against the Congress and the CPI(M). She also announced the TMC's intention to field a candidate in Meghalaya.
A crucial meeting of the Telugu Desam Party, the Jana Sena Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party is currently underway to discuss seat sharing for the upcoming Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections and Lok Sabha elections.
In the meeting, partners of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) from Maharashtra, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Haryana, and Bihar are likely to discuss seat sharing with the BJP's top leadership tomorrow.
The Congress leader, while taking to X, expressed his disappointment over the announcement of Amol Kirtikar as the Shiv Sena candidate for the Mumbai North-West constituency, a decision made by Thackeray before the MVA could finalise seat-sharing arrangements.
With Lok Sabha election schedule likely to be announced soon, the the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, the ruling party in Tamil Nadu, has sealed a seat sharing pact with the Congress (both allies of the INDIA bloc) which will contest on nine seats, setting aside 30 seats for the ruling DMK.
"There are 5 seats that are being demanded by the NCP (Sharad Pawar), Congress and Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray). So in total, there are 15 seats out of 48 in which they do not have coordination," Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) president Prakash Ambedkar said.
With the Lok Sabha elections barely weeks away now, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), along with its ruling ally in the state, the Congress, are likely to finalise their seat-sharing deal by Saturday or the day after, according to DMK sources.