As NDA, INDIA Plan Next Move, Nitish Kumar, Tejashwi Yadav On Same Flight

With the 2024 Lok Sabha polls denying a two-third majority to BJP, NDA and INDIA partners will be holding key meetings today as they try to cobble together numbers required to form the government.

The BJP-led NDA bagged 294 seats in the 543-member Parliament -- 22 more than the magic figure of 272. The INDIA Opposition bloc finished with 234 -- 38 less than the majority mark. Two NDA allies, TDP's Chandrababu Naidu and JDU's Nitish Kumar, hold the key to the doors to power. While the two contested the general election in an alliance with the BJP, INDIA leaders are learnt to have reached out to coalition-era veterans to woo them into the Opposition bloc. As the numbers stack up, INDIA needs the support of both JDU and TDP, and a bunch of unaligned MPs, to clinch a majority.