LUCKNOW: With the notification issued for the bypoll to nine assembly seats of Uttar Pradesh barring Milkipur which is caught in litigation, INDIA bloc partners – Congress and Samajwadi Party – have resumed seat-sharing talks. The voting on nine assembly seats including Karhal, Katehari, Kundraki, Meerapur, Ghaziabad, Khair, Sisamau, Phulpur and Majhawan, will take place on November 13 and the results will be announced with the state assembly election results of Maharashtra and Jharkhand on November 23. However, a final decision rests with the top brass of both the parties as SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and senior Congress leaders Rahul or Priyanka Gandhi will put their seal on the seat-sharing issue. As per the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) chief Ajai Rai, the talks are on between the two partners. “We hope the matter will be finalized soon,” said Rai after the Election Commission announced the by-poll schedule on Tuesday. While the Samajwadi Party had unilaterally announced its candidates on six of the 10 poll-bound seats on October 9, a day after the Haryana election results, the sources claimed that it is currently inclined to offer two seats of the four remaining seats to Congress. On the other, the Congress party is concerned about getting fewer seats as it had staked claim to five of the 10 seats.
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