BJP Approaches INDIA's Rashtriya Lok Dal With 7-Seat Offer: Sources
NDTV
Uttar Pradesh has 80 Lok Sabha seats - by far the most of any state - and is crucial to any party (or alliance) hoping to form the government at the centre.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has offered the Rashtriya Lok Dal - which has substantial support among Jats and farmers in western Uttar Pradesh - five parliamentary seats and two ministerial berths to get Jayant Chaudhary to dump Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party, sources told NDTV Wednesday. मेरे सम्मानित साथियों फालतू की अफवाहों पर ध्यान ना दो सिर्फ अपनी पार्टी को आगे बढ़ाने की ग्रुप में चर्चा करो और लोकसभा चुनाव की तैयारी में लगे रहो हमारे माननीय जयंत चौधरी जी कोई भी फैसला गलत नहीं लेंगे रही बात बीजेपी में जाने की तो चौधरी साहब कभी बीजेपी में नहीं जाएंगे | सब झूठी…
The RLD and the SP - long-time allies and members of the troubled INDIA bloc - last month agreed a deal of their own, under which the former will contest seven seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha election.
Sources said the BJP has offered the RLD two Lok Sabha and one Rajya Sabha seats, in addition to two ministerial berths in Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's government. The RLD, unconfirmed reports indicate, is holding out for at least three more Lok Sabha seats and a union minister berth.
