Bengaluru: On Thursday, coalition coordination committee chairman Siddaramaiah said that the ruling Congress-JD(S) coalition in Karnataka will take a decision on seat sharing for the coming Lok Sabha elections in three or four days, Ruling out any threat to the H D Kumaraswamy-led government amid alleged attempts by the BJP to topple it, the former Chief Minister said both parties will face the polls together.

While Preliminary discussions have been held on Lok Sabha elections and a meeting will be held in three or four days to decide on the constituencies, he said that "..keeping in mind the situation in the constituencies, we will decide," Siddaramaiah told reporters after the coordination committee meeting here.

Responding to a question about opinion within the Congress not to give up seats where the party has sitting MPs, he said "We have not discussed it." JD(S) secretary general Danish Ali said "We only started a preliminary discussion on seat sharing, the process will continue and it will take many rounds to have a pre-poll alliance for Lok Sabha seats. It will take some time.”
 

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JD(S) has already expressed its desire to contest in 12 seats, on which the Congress party has some reservations. The Congress has said seat sharing will be on 'candidate-merit' basis. Also, several senior Congress leaders and MPs, including Veerappa Moily, have reportedly asked the leadership not to cede nine seats where the party has its sitting MPs, to JD(S). There are also voices within the party not to field sitting MPs in certain constituencies.

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