No confusion on seat-sharing among I-N-D-I-A bloc allies: NCP MP Supriya Sule

Nationalist Congress Party NCP MP Supriya Sule on Monday ruled out any internal confusion on the over the seatsharing issue for the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha elections reported the ANIAccording to the ANI report Supriya Sule said that a lot of things about seat sharing were clarified in a meeting between Sonia Gandhi Uddhav Thackeray and NCP chief Sharad PawarHer statement comes amid speculations of seatsharing issue reportedly between Congress and the Shiv Sena UBT over seat sharingThere is no confusion internally There was a meeting between Sonia Gandhi Uddhav Thackeray and Sharad Pawar in Delhi 15 days ago A lot of things about seat sharing were clarified in that meeting The information will be officially announced in the next 810 days Supriya Sule told reporters on Monday as per the ANIThere will be ups and downs in the seatsharing formula as we are in alliance so this will happen Supriya Sule said according to the news agencyWhen asked about the role of Prakash Ambedkar in the INDIAbloc she said that he will definitely play an important role in the allianceEarlier former Lok Sabha MP Prakash Ambedkar the grandson of Dr BR Ambedkar reiterated his interest in joining the MVA and INDIA alliance ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in 2024VBA Vanchit Bahujan Aaghadi President Prakash Ambedkar in his letter to Mallikarjun Kharge Sharad Pawar and Uddhav Thackeray stressed the need to adopt his proposed formula of 12 seats for each partyHe termed the 12121212 formula as a conflictfree plan to decide on the number of seat sharing in the stateEmphasising that defeating PM Modi should be the only priority for MVA Prakash Ambedkar in his letter mentioned that the VBA desires that the parties within the MVA Shiv Sena Uddhav Thackeray Nationalist Congress Party Indian National Congress and VBA should fight the upcoming Lok Sabha elections together and on an equal number of seats as equal partnersMeanwhile amid debate and discussion in the Maha Vikas Aghadi MVA over seat sharing between parties the Shiv Sena UBT has reportedly demanded 23 seats out of the 48 Lok Sabha seats in MaharashtraUBT Sena MP Sanjay Raut said I had said that Congress will have to start from zero I did not say that Congress is zero Congress does not have a single MP in Maharashtra We had 18 MPs but some left and weve 6 MPs now Our alliance is there with Congress and MVA will win around 40 seats BJP needs EVMs to win they cannot win alone Their alliance is with EVM reported the ANIThe 2024 Lok Sabha elections will be held next year and are likely to be between the Modi governments NDA alliance and the INDIAblocwith ANI inputs