Divisions in Kerala’s Left alliance over seat sharing

August 24th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) snapped its ties with the Om Praksh Chautala led Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) in Haryana on Monday. Addressing aprhs conference, party General Secretary Vijay Goel said: "The alliance with INLD has come to an end, we will contest the upcoming Assembly polls in the state on our own." According to sources both parties were said to be at loggerheads over seat sharing for the upcoming assembly elections.

March 31st, 2009 HYDERABAD - The seat-sharing arrangement between the four-party Grand Alliance led by the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) is still inconclusive. TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu is holding talks with Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) President K.

March 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress Tuesday said it was feeling hurt by Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad's desertion from its camp in Bihar -- all over seat-sharing. 'I do not find any explanation why Lalu Prasad could not accommodate six seats to the Congress out of 40 (in the state).

March 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress Tuesday said it was feeling hurt by Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad's desertion from its camp in Bihar -- all over seat-sharing. 'I do not find any explanation why Lalu Prasad could not accommodate six seats to the Congress out of 40 (in the state).

March 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI/BHUBANESHWAR - Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi has said that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) is intact despite hiccups over seat sharing. Talking to reporters here on Friday, Singhvi said, "The Lok Janshakti Party and the Rashtriya Janata Dal have never left the alliance, they have repeated their allegiance to the alliance.

March 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Allaying fears of any split in the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, the Congress party Friday said the coalition was intact and 'issues' with its partners would be sorted out soon. 'The UPA is intact.

March 20th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Kerala's ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) Thursday finalised a seat sharing plan while a miffed ally Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) walked out of the meeting on being denied the Kozhikode seat. LDF convener Vaikom Viswam told reporters that the Kozhikode seat has been taken over by the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M).

March 18th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) is stitching a Third Front at the national level, yet in its own bastion of Kerala it was not able to resolve the seat sharing deadlock with traditional allies till Tuesday. A day after Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S), member of the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF), asked its lone minister to resign from the state cabinet, the CPI-M and the Communist Party of India (CPI) held one-on-one talks to resolve the impasse.

March 13th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - A meeting of the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) again ended here Thursday without the front partners agreeing on who among them will contest which Lok Sabha seats in the polls next month. In the 2004 elections, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) contested 14 seats, the Communist Party of India (CPI) four and the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) and the Kerala Congress (Joseph) contested one seat each.

March 13th, 2009 RANCHI - Just three days after saying it was still part of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), the Jharkhand Mukti Morch (JMM) has announced that it will support the alliance only if its nominee is accepted as the chief ministerial candidate in Jharkhand. 'No alliance has been finalised in Jharkhand.

March 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Tuesday said that it has finalized seat-sharing agreement with the Congress on most of the parliamentary constituencies of Maharashtra. NCP spokesperson D.P.

March 9th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The Biju Janata Dal, which snapped its ties with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), will forge a pre-poll alliance with the Left parties in Orissa, BJD chief and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said here Sunday. The announcement came after Patnaik held a discussion with Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury.

March 3rd, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Kerala's opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) Monday said it was geared up for polls that would be held in the first phase on April 16 in the state even as the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) has failed to resolve seat-sharing deadlock up till now. The Congress-led UDF has decided to go with the same seat-sharing formula as it had in 2004.

March 1st, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - A meeting of the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) Saturday to finalise the seat-sharing formula in Kerala for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections ended in a deadlock. 'The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) will now have discussions with the allies on a one-to-one basis and things will be sorted out,' a LDF leader said declining to be named.

January 8th, 2009 PANAJI - Differences seem to be brewing in the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) coalition in Goa over seat-sharing arrangements in the state for the next general elections. Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) president Subhash Shirodkar Friday announced that the Congress was gearing up to contest the North Goa constituency, two days after the NCP publicly staked claim to the seat during its party chief and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar's visit.