Congress Ready For Seat-Sharing Talks, Decision Will Be Quick: Sources

New Delhi:

The Congress, below stress from INDIA bloc allies, has lastly made a transfer to thrash out the contentious situation of seat-sharing. Sources mentioned occasion leaders are reaching out to allies for seat sharing and changes throughout the nation. Senior chief Mukul Wasnik has dialled varied Opposition occasion chiefs. If required, the Congress will go to states to satisfy Opposition leaders too if required.

Sources indicated that the occasion hopes to finalise the seat-sharing agreements earlier than the subsequent section of Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, which can start on January 14. The concept is to get on with campaigning because the Manipur-to-Mumbai march begins.

With that thoughts, the checklist of candidates, too, is anticipated to be finalised sooner moderately than later.

The Congress resolution got here at a gathering held this night on the occasion headquarters in Delhi. A second assembly was held on the residence of occasion chief Mallikarjun Kharge, the place moreover Rahul Gandhi, the committee on seat-sharing — headed by Mukul Wasnik — was additionally current. Former chief ministers Ashok Gehlot and Bhupesh Baghel are the members of the seat-sharing committee.

The trail to seat sharing, although, is anticipated to be rocky, with leaders of assorted Opposition events signalling their unwillingness to share turf.

“INDIA alliance will probably be current in whole India and in Bengal the Trinamool Congress will battle. In Bengal it’s only the Trinamool Congress that may train the BJP a lesson. It might probably present the whole nation the trail to victory, not every other occasion,” Mamata Banerjee has mentioned.  

The Shiv Sena UBT, too, has telegraphed reluctance.

“That is Maharashtra, and Shiv Sena is the most important occasion right here. Congress is a nationwide occasion… We’ve at all times mentioned that Shiv Sena has at all times been combating on 23 seats within the Lok Sabha elections together with Dadra and Nagar Haveli and that will probably be agency,” senior occasion chief Sanjay Raut had mentioned.

Maharashtra has 48 seats and a few will probably be claimed by Maha Vikas Aghadi ally — the Sharad Pawar faction of the Nationalist Congress Social gathering. Whereas the Congress is a part of the alliance, its say is proscribed given the variety of seats it received within the 288-member meeting within the 2019 polls was solely 44.  

Leaders of Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Social gathering have additionally indicated that they’d not wish to share any of the 21 seats in Delhi and Punjab.

Whereas AAP has saved the Congress hemmed in each states, the occasion’s exhibiting within the 2019 basic elections had not been steller.

Although AAP received 4 of the 13 seats in Punjab, it ended up dropping them to factionalism and party-hopping. In Delhi, AAP misplaced all 8 seats to the BJP.

In Bihar too, the Opposition bloc members have a really clear thought about their claims, although there have been no on-record feedback on the topic from the ruling Janata Dal United and ally Rashtriya Janata Dal.

The Congress’s poor exhibiting in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh meeting elections, is anticipated to additional erode its heft.

The seat-sharing state of affairs in Uttar Pradesh, which has the most important chunk of Lok Sabha seats, 80, is anticipated to attract a lot consideration.   

Disadvantaged of the six seats he sought in Madhya Pradesh by the state leaders of the Congress, Samajwadi Social gathering chief Akhilesh Yadav shouldn’t be anticipated to yield floor in his residence territory. Akhilesh Yadav has brazenly expressed his displeasure with the Congress forward of the election in Madhya Pradesh.

In 2019, the Congress had managed to win just one seat in Uttar Pradesh – Raebareli, which is the stronghold of Sonia Gandhi. The state maintain the important thing to energy in Delhi.