Maharashtra Assembly elections: Mahayuti, MVA yet to complete seat-sharing

Maharashtra Assembly elections: Mahayuti, MVA yet to complete seat-sharing

Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde on his way to file nomination from Kopri-Pachpakhadi constituency, ahead of Assembly polls, in Thane, on October 28, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI With just 24 hours remaining for filing nominations for the Maharashtra Assembly elections, the ruling Mahayuti and the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) have still not been able … Read more

MVA party high commands will decide remaining 40 seats: Nana Patole after seat-sharing spats

MVA party high commands will decide remaining 40 seats: Nana Patole after seat-sharing spats

Maha Vikas Aaghadi Leaders Nana Patole, Uddhav Thackeray and Sharad Pawar during the MahaVikas Aghadi Party Workers Meeting held in Mumbai ahead of Maharashtra Assembly Elections on Friday (October 19, 2024). | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini The Maha Vikas Aghadi, Maharashtra’s Opposition coalition, still needs to resolve internal differences regarding almost 40 of the State’s … Read more

Maha Vikas Aghadi seat-sharing woes continue, Congress wants ‘friendly fight’

Maha Vikas Aghadi seat-sharing woes continue, Congress wants ‘friendly fight’

The fissure within the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) in Maharashtra has deepened after Congress leader Naseem Khan said his party wanted “friendly fights” in six Lok Sabha seats. However, Congress’s allies NCP (Sharad Pawar) and Shiv Sena (UBT) opposed the proposition, saying it would divide the votes and benefit the BJP. A friendly fight would … Read more

Congress, IUML complete seat-sharing discussion, announcement on February 27

Congress, IUML complete seat-sharing discussion, announcement on February 27

UDF Leaders P.K. Kunjalikutty, V.D. Satheesan. File. | Photo Credit: S. MAHINSHA The Congress and the Indian Union Muslim League on February 25 concluded crucial seat-sharing discussion ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. Though the Congress and the League leaders who took part in the deliberations termed the discussion as satisfactory, they refused to divulge … Read more

Bihar election: BJP-JDU seat-sharing leaves ex-DGP Gupteshwar Pandey high and dry

Bihar election: BJP-JDU seat-sharing leaves ex-DGP Gupteshwar Pandey high and dry

Seat-sharing for the Bihar Assembly election not only saw Chief Minister Nitish Kumar ceding the political ground to the BJP but also created a hurdle for top cop-turned-politician Gupteshwar Pandey’s electoral plunge. The Bihar Assembly election begins from October 28, when 71 seats will go to the polls including those in the Buxar district from … Read more

Bihar polls: Seat-sharing done with JDU, BJP release first list of 27 candidates, backs Nitish Kumar as CM

Bihar polls: Seat-sharing done with JDU, BJP release first list of 27 candidates, backs Nitish Kumar as CM

Ending days of intense speculation, the NDA on Tuesday announced its seat-sharing formula for Bihar assembly polls under which JD(U) will contest on 122 seats and BJP 121 out of a total of 243 seats. BJP backed to the hilt Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as its leader in the state and rebuffed a rebellious Chirag … Read more

Bihar Assembly election: NDA may announce seat-sharing arrangement today as senior BJP leaders reach Patna

Bihar Assembly election: NDA may announce seat-sharing arrangement today as senior BJP leaders reach Patna

With BJP’s Bihar in-charge Devendra Fadnavis back in Patna, the announcement on NDA seat-sharing formula for the Bihar Assembly election 2020 is likely to be made today. Bihar BJP election in-charge Devendra Fadnavis, BJP Bihar in-charge Bhupender Yadav, Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, state president Sanjay Jaiswal and deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi during … Read more

Bihar Election 2020: JP Nadda to meet top BJP leaders to discuss seat-sharing after LJP walks out

Bihar Election 2020: JP Nadda to meet top BJP leaders to discuss seat-sharing after LJP walks out

Bihar Election 2020: BJP chief JP Nadda will meet top leaders from the party to deliberate over the Bihar polls and finalise the party’s candidates. BJP chief JP Nadda (Photo: PTI) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president JP Nadda will meet top leaders from the party to discuss Bihar election strategy and seat-sharing a day after the … Read more