After Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Social gathering and the Congress appear to have sealed the seat-sharing deal in Madhya Pradesh too. “The Samajwadi Social gathering will contest one seat, Khajuraho, in Madhya Pradesh and help Congress on the remainder,” the chief of Uttar Pradesh’s SP unit, Naresh Uttam Patel was quoted by PTI as saying on Wednesday.
There are a complete of 29 Lok Sabha seats in Madhya Pradesh. Patel stated senior leaders of each the events will chalk out future programmes of the alliance.
The Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) is at the moment in energy in Madhya Pradesh. Within the 2023 meeting polls, the BJP secured a landslide victory towards the Congress by profitable 163 of the full 230 meeting seats. In the meantime, the Congress gained 66 seats. The Bharat Adivasi Social gathering opened its tally for the primary time in Madhya Pradesh by profitable the Sailana seat.
The Madhya Pradesh seat-sharing deal was introduced quickly after INDIA bloc companions SP and Congress introduced a tie-up for the Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh. In Uttar Pradesh, the SP determined to contest on 63 seats, leaving 17 out of the 80 seats within the state for the ally Congress.
Among the many 17 seats on which the Congress will contest in UP embrace Raebareli and Amethi, as soon as thought-about pocket boroughs of the occasion, and Varanasi which is Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency.
Aside from Raebareli, Amethi and Varanasi, “the opposite seats on which the Congress might be contesting included Kanpur Metropolis, Fatehpur Sekri, Basgaon, Saharanpur, Prayagraj, Maharajganj, Amroha, Jhansi, Bulandshahr, Ghaziabad, Mathura, Sitapur, Barabanki and Deoria,” SP state chief Naresh Uttam Patel was quoted by PTI as saying.
The Samajwadi Social gathering and the Congress are companions within the INDIA bloc. The success of the seat sharing talks between the 2 are essential, particularly after the failure of such talks with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who has determined to contest in her state alone.
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