The Opposition alliance will get seats ‘well above’ the 272-mark needed for a majority in the 543-seat Lok Sabha, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said.
The Opposition INDIA bloc will pick its prime minister within two days, with the party that gets the maximum seats in the coalition will be the “natural claimant” to the post, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh told PTI on Wednesday.
Ramesh made the comments on the last day of the Lok Sabha elections campaign. The final phase of polling will take place on June 1. The counting of votes will happen on June 4.
“In 2004, the [Lok Sabha] election results came out on May 13 and the UPA [United Progressive Alliance] was formed on May 16,” Ramesh told the news agency. “Dr Manmohan Singh’s name as the prime minister was floated on May 17.
