INDIA bloc meeting: Seat-sharing to be finalised soon, exercise to begin at state-level

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The INDIA bloc on Tuesday decided that seat-sharing for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls would be finalised as soon as possible with the exercise beginning at the state level, and exuded confidence the coalition partners will together eventually deal with prickly issues in Punjab and Delhi..

While the TMC insisted during the fourth meeting of the INDIA parties here on Tuesday that the seat-sharing should be finalised by December 31, the Congress asserted it could be sealed by the second week of January after all issues are ironed out smoothly...

Sources said that Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray proposed during the meeting that state-level seat sharing be finalised by the month-end and final overall seat-sharing be completed by the second week of January...

According to sources, the TMC proposed at the meeting that the Congress can fight 300 seats and let Samajwadi Party's Akhilesh Yadav be captain in Uttar Pradesh, AAP's Arvind Kejriwal in Delhi and Punjab, and the TMC in West Bengal...

During the meeting, the TMC stressed that it wants the INDIA bloc to win and therefore was insisting on prioritising seat sharing, noting that in 179 days, they had only came up with the name.. (Catch all the Business News, Breaking News Events and Latest News Updates on The Economic Times.)..

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