Post-poll Alliances

The National Conference is open to a strategic post-poll alliance with the People's Democratic Party to keep the BJP out of power after the 2024 Jammu and Kashmir Assembly election, NC leader and ex Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah said.

BSP supremo Mayawati on Monday said her party would go it alone in the coming Lok Sabha elections, but she did not rule out a post-poll alliance.

KC Venugopal said that the Congress was open to forming post-poll alliances with other regional parties, even if they had ideological differences or were rivals in some states.

The Bhartiya Janata Party was keen on a post-poll alliance with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in 2019, but its party president Sharad Pawar made it clear to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that there can be no truck with the saffron party.

The NDPP-BJP alliance has secured a comfortable majority in the 60-member Nagaland Assembly, winning 37 seats. While the alliance's victory was a foregone conclusion, the emergence of smaller players makes for an interesting post-poll scenario.

Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said in case a situation arises in Uttar Pradesh that there is a hung Assembly then AAP will enter into a post-poll alliance to keep incumbent the BJP out of power in the state.

The Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) will not form an alliance with the "Mahagathbandhan" (grand alliance) after Bihar elections, party chief Chirag Paswan said on Monday.

The AJSU Party, an erstwhile ally of the BJP in Jharkhand, indicated on Sunday that it is open to post-poll alliance with any party that fulfils its agenda of better and inclusive governance.

On the alliance between Nationalist Congress Party, Shiv Sena and Congress in Maharashtra, a Supreme Court bench said that it can't curtail rights of political parties to align with other parties.

Jannayak Janta Party chief Dushyant Chautala's security was intensified on Saturday after his party entered into a post-poll alliance with the BJP to claim formation of the government for a second consecutive term in Haryana.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister NChandrababu Naidu on Tuesday discussed forging a non-BJP alliance after the results of the Lok Sabha elections on Thursday with Janata Dal-Secular supremo HDDeve Gowda and Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy, a party official said.

The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) will not be part of a planned meeting of opposition parties on May 21 to chalk out a post-poll alliance, a party leader said today.

Emphasising the inevitability of a post-poll alliance between the Congress and the Samajwadi Party-Bahujan Samaj Party-Rashtriya Lok Dal combine, senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid says the Uttar Pradesh "gathbandhan" will have no choice but to forge a tie-up with his party after the election results.

A post-poll alliance is "absolutely" possible after the Lok Sabha elections as all the opposition parties are "united" in defeating the BJP in the interest of the country, Congress president Rahul Gandhi has said.

The sharing of Lok Sabha seats between the Congress and the Janata Dal Secular for this year's general elections should be on a 2:1 formula, Danish Ali, one of the senior leaders of HD Kumarswamy's Janata Dal Secular said today. The larger share should go to the Congress, said the leader, who was one of the key interlocuters when the two parties fo...

The National Conference is open to a strategic post-poll alliance with the People's Democratic Party to keep the BJP out of power after the 2024 Jammu and Kashmir Assembly election, NC leader and ex Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah said.

BSP supremo Mayawati on Monday said her party would go it alone in the coming Lok Sabha elections, but she did not rule out a post-poll alliance.

KC Venugopal said that the Congress was open to forming post-poll alliances with other regional parties, even if they had ideological differences or were rivals in some states.

The Bhartiya Janata Party was keen on a post-poll alliance with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in 2019, but its party president Sharad Pawar made it clear to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that there can be no truck with the saffron party.

The NDPP-BJP alliance has secured a comfortable majority in the 60-member Nagaland Assembly, winning 37 seats. While the alliance's victory was a foregone conclusion, the emergence of smaller players makes for an interesting post-poll scenario.

Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said in case a situation arises in Uttar Pradesh that there is a hung Assembly then AAP will enter into a post-poll alliance to keep incumbent the BJP out of power in the state.

The Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) will not form an alliance with the "Mahagathbandhan" (grand alliance) after Bihar elections, party chief Chirag Paswan said on Monday.

The AJSU Party, an erstwhile ally of the BJP in Jharkhand, indicated on Sunday that it is open to post-poll alliance with any party that fulfils its agenda of better and inclusive governance.

On the alliance between Nationalist Congress Party, Shiv Sena and Congress in Maharashtra, a Supreme Court bench said that it can't curtail rights of political parties to align with other parties.

Jannayak Janta Party chief Dushyant Chautala's security was intensified on Saturday after his party entered into a post-poll alliance with the BJP to claim formation of the government for a second consecutive term in Haryana.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister NChandrababu Naidu on Tuesday discussed forging a non-BJP alliance after the results of the Lok Sabha elections on Thursday with Janata Dal-Secular supremo HDDeve Gowda and Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy, a party official said.

The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) will not be part of a planned meeting of opposition parties on May 21 to chalk out a post-poll alliance, a party leader said today.

Emphasising the inevitability of a post-poll alliance between the Congress and the Samajwadi Party-Bahujan Samaj Party-Rashtriya Lok Dal combine, senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid says the Uttar Pradesh "gathbandhan" will have no choice but to forge a tie-up with his party after the election results.

A post-poll alliance is "absolutely" possible after the Lok Sabha elections as all the opposition parties are "united" in defeating the BJP in the interest of the country, Congress president Rahul Gandhi has said.

The sharing of Lok Sabha seats between the Congress and the Janata Dal Secular for this year's general elections should be on a 2:1 formula, Danish Ali, one of the senior leaders of HD Kumarswamy's Janata Dal Secular said today. The larger share should go to the Congress, said the leader, who was one of the key interlocuters when the two parties fo...