**Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge Confident of Resolving Seat Sharing Issue Ahead of Bihar Assembly Polls**

Bengaluru: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday expressed confidence in resolving the seat sharing issue with alliance partners for the upcoming Bihar Assembly polls. He informed that a meeting of party leaders is scheduled for later in the day, which he will attend virtually.

The much-awaited Bihar Assembly elections, where the opposition bloc led by the RJD and the Congress aims to unseat the ruling NDA, will be held in two phases on November 6 and 11. The votes will be counted on November 14.

“We are going to solve this. Today there is a meeting at 2:30 pm. I’m also attending the meeting virtually. We are sorting it out,” Kharge told reporters in response to questions about the deadlock over seat sharing.

When asked about the number of seats the Congress will contest, he said, “We are not going to reveal how many seats we have decided now itself. In today’s meeting, we will discuss those where we have to compromise and on which there are no differences. After 2:30 pm, it will be known how many will be decided today and how many tomorrow.”

This marked Kharge’s first interaction with the media since his discharge from the hospital, where he underwent a procedure to have a pacemaker implanted last week.
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