The Opposition INDIA bloc is transferring quick with discussions on seat-sharing, scheduling conferences cheek-by-jowl in a number of states. After talks began on Delhi and Punjab, as we speak is the flip of two of the nation’s largest states — Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra — which account for 128 of the 543 Lok Sabha seats.

While a gathering is on manner in Mumbai between the Shiv Sea UBT, Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party and the Congress in Maharashtra, yet another is scheduled this night to divide the 80 seats of Uttar Pradesh.That might be held at 6 pm on the Delhi residence of senior occasion chief Mukul Wasnik.

Not a single one in all these negotiations are anticipated to be straightforward for the Congress.

While there isn’t a love misplaced between the occasion and the Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party and Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party, talks with MVA (Maha Vikas Aghadi) allies in Maharashtra are also anticipated to come back with its personal set of challenges.

The Shiv Sena UBT has made it clear that because the “biggest party” within the alliance, it expects a minimum of 23 seats.

“This is Maharashtra, and Shiv Sena is the biggest party here… We have always said that Shiv Sena has always been fighting on 23 seats in the Lok Sabha elections including Dadra and Nagar Haveli and that will be firm,” senior occasion chief Sanjay Raut had mentioned.

This would depart precisely 25 seats to be divided between Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party and the Congress, which has bought a restricted say, given the minimal heft it has within the state.

In the 2019 meeting elections, the Congress received solely 44 seats within the 288-member meeting — manner decrease than both of its allies.

In Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party shouldn’t be anticipated to be in a forgiving temper given the state Congress’s refusal to share any seats within the meeting elections. State occasion chief Kamal Nath had refused to honour the central management’s dedication for six seats within the state.

The ripples had been very public. Akhilesh Yadav’s swipes on the Congress had been adopted by the occasion’s crushing defeat within the three heartland states and the sacking of Kamal Nath from the highest put up.

The scenario is additional difficult by the Congress’s poor efficiency in Uttar Pradesh. The Samajwadi Party considers it legal responsibility because the meeting polls of 2017, when the 2 events contested as allies and bought trounced.

The Samajwadi Party, which was ruling the state since 2012, is but to achieve sufficient floor to defeat the Yogi Adityanath-led BJP authorities.

The SP, which bought decreased to 47 seats in 2017 from the 224 it had, recouped among the seats final 12 months. It received 111 seats, up by 64. But the BJP was manner forward with 255 seats.

Congress’s dialogue with AAP can be proving contentious. While the occasion desires 4 seats in Delhi and 7 seats in Punjab, AAP shouldn’t be able to comply. In each Delhi and Punjab, the ruling occasion desires the larger share of seats.

In Bengal, Congress wish to have 5 seats. But Trinamool Congress chief and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has made it clear that she shouldn’t be prepared to supply any. The matter has not been formally mentioned but.

In Bihar, the Congress and the Rashtriya Janata Dal have carried out the preliminary talks. Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal United won’t accept lower than 17 of the state’s 40 seats. It is probably going that the RJD would additionally contest 17 seats consistent with the 2015 meeting polls system. Five seats can go to the Congress and one to the CPI-ML.