Seat-sharing for the Lok Sabha seats between the Janata Dal-Secular (JDS) and the BJP for the coming Lok Sabha seats will be decided after former Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy meets Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the national Capital.
There is no decision on the number of seats to be shared by the two parties in Karnataka which has 28 Lok Sabha constituencies ,sources said.
JDS is expecting more than 4 Lok Sabha seats which it earlier reported to have been offered to it by the BJP.
The third main political force in Karnataka after the ruling Congress and the main opposition the BJP, the JDS is seeking 6 Lok Sabha seats to contest in Karnataka, according to sources.
In 2019 Lok Sabha poll BJP had won 25 of 28 seats.
JDS party national president and former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda while announcing the pre-poll “understanding” between the two parties at Bengaluru clarified the seat sharing formula will be decided between his son and former two time Chief Minister Kumaraswamy and Prime Minister Modi.
“The decision has been taken to save our party, to ensure the survival of a regional party which has been targeted (by Congress) to be finished.
“We have decided on it (alliance with BJP) and a final meeting between my son Kumaraswamy and prime minister Narendra Modi will decide on how many seats will be given to us,” said Gowda.
Gowda claimed that both the parties are on equal footing and neither the JD(S) nor BJP can be discounted in terms of their vote strength across the State.