Thanks to the polls, the TDP has been an ally of the Congress in the past, and the JDU too is a former ally of the Congress.
The INDIA bloc is also likely to try for government formation, and Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge said the decision to include the TDP and JD-U, both of which had earlier had coalition agreements with the Congress party, will be given by the opposition alliance in a meeting tomorrow.
It becomes an issue that separates the NDA, which has 292 seats, and India, which has merely 232 seats, by a difference of 60.
It has not even come to power in most of the states individually and currently leads in 240 out of the total 542 parliamentary constituencies—62 and 480—that were in the fray, out of which the BJP has won in 62 alone till 6.10 p.m. Arvind Kejriwal’s AAP is leading with 67, Narendra Modi’s BJP is at 45, Congress is at 44, Mama Banerjee’s TMC is at 25, Chandrababu Naidu’s TDP is at 16, and the JDU is at 12.
When a reporter aptly highlighted that while the NDA has secured a majority, some of the players have been its Congress allies, and whether the party has lost interest in governance or is actively attempting to do so, Mr. Gandhi replied quite affably, “We are going to have a meeting with India, our alliance partners. I think the meeting is scheduled for tomorrow, and such questions will be posed and answered there as we respect our partners and shall not make any statement regarding
Despite this being urged, the Wayanad MP, who has successfully managed to defend the seat for the second time and also the registration of Rae Bareli triumph, said, “It is a very thin line. We will act on the economic policy based on the decision made by the India alliance.”
During the interview, when Congress President Mallikarjun Charge was pressed with the same question, he gave a clue about the new partners.
