2024 General Elections LIVE Updates: The Congress and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) are likely to announce their seat sharing formula for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections at a joint press conference on Friday. After a series of meetings between the top brass of both the parties, the tussle seems have to come to an end. According to News18 sources, RJD is going to contest on at least 26 seats, while Congress will fight on nine seats and left parties on five seats in Bihar.
In Maharashtra however, the seat sharing talks are at a standstill in both the ruling Mahayuti and opposition Maha Vikas Agadhi (MVA). Sources said that the MVA is confident of finalising the seat-sharing formula by this weekend.
Meanwhile, the Veerashaiva Lingayat seers on Thursday in Karnataka’s Hubballi have demanded the replacement of union minister Pralhad Joshi as a BJP candidate from the Dharwad constituency. They have given the saffron camp a deadline of March 31 to arrive at a decision, failing which they will field their own candidate.
In Punjab, days after the BJP announced that it would contest all the seats in the state by itself, the Shiromani Akali Dal on Thursday named five candidates for the Lok Sabha polls in Punjab. It also named two candidates for Haryana.
