Congress considers 255 seats for 2024 Lok Sabha polls amid regional conflicts in INDIA bloc

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Rahul Gandhi , AICC general secretary (Organisation) K C Venugopal in attendance. The Congress leader met members of the party’s five-member national alliance committee, and hinted at the willingness to contest from lesser number of seats than it did during the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, Indian Express reported. According to the report, amid much anticipation about seat-sharing by opposition INDIA bloc parties, the Congress has asked members to begin seat-sharing talks with other parties immediately.

The Indian Express report quoting people familiar with the developments mentioned that Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge told a separate meeting of AICC general secretaries and state in-charges, state Congress presidents, and Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leaders earlier in the day that the party would focus on 255 seats. The opposition INDIA bloc is yet to formally declare their seat-sharing decision for the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha elections. However, even before a meeting could be held, the Congress seem to have had run-ins with several regional parties in consideration with seat-sharing.

regional political partisan conflicts have erupted in West Bengal, Maharashtra, and Punjab. In West Bengal, the MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury led-Congress has displayed rift with INDIA bloc ally and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the latter's claim that TMC would give Congress 2 seats from West Bengal. Notably, Adhir Chowdhury and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee has opposed each other for the seat of governance in West Bengal, forever.