Congress Working Committee member and former Union Minister Salman Khurshid said in an interview that seat-sharing talks will not start soon in Punjab.
He said the party would first focus on the possible outcomes. Khurshid is also part of the national alliance committee for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Let us tell you that Congress had formed five screening committees on Friday to select candidates for the Lok Sabha elections. Lok Sabha elections are to be held in April-May.
In this regard, when Salman Khurshid was asked, when will you start discussing seats with INDIA partners? So he said, “We will start talks on seats on Sunday. We are scheduling meetings with either the leadership of those parties or whoever they nominate; We will start talks with them from January 7. Whenever people give us schedules and dates, we will talk to them accordingly. That start will give us an idea of what their expectations might be. “The leadership of our own party has told us what the Congress expects from the alliance.”
Regarding which parties there is a meeting on Sunday, the Congress leader said, “We are starting from Delhi. Therefore, we are starting with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi. On the same day, we have also scheduled a meeting with Janata Dal (United). Others will come when they find it convenient. We will meet them whenever they want to meet us. We are ready for talks and have given it top priority.”
Let us tell you that in Punjab, the leadership of Aam Aadmi Party has argued that if Congress joins hands with AAP, its votes will go to BJP and Akali Dal. When Salman Khurshid was asked about this, he said, “This is the view of some of our leaders in Punjab but we have not talked to our party leadership in Punjab. We were advised to let it sit for a while and pay attention to possible consequences wherever possible. There are some difficulties in Punjab and we will consider them at the appropriate time after getting a signal from the Congress leadership.”
Let us tell you that the five screening committees formed by Congress for the selection of candidates have divided all the states and union territories into five groups.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has constituted the screening committee, according to a party statement. The first group consists of Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Lakshadweep and Puducherry. Harish Chaudhary has been appointed chairman of this screening committee, while Jignesh Mevani and Vishwajit Kadam have been appointed as members.
Madhusudan Mistry has been appointed head of the committee for Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Goa, Odisha, Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Suraj Hegde and Shafi Parambil are its members.
Rajni Patil has been appointed chairman of the screening committee for Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Delhi, Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli, while Krishna Allavuru and Pargat Singh are its members.
Bhakta Charan Das has been appointed Chairman of the Screening Committee for the group comprising Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. In this, Neeraj Dangi and Yashomati Thakur have been appointed as members. Party leader from Punjab Rana KP Singh has been appointed chairman of the screening committee for the group comprising Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura, Sikkim. Jaivardhan Singh and Ivan D’Souza have been appointed as members.
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