Hyderabad, Mar 17: BJP and TDP arrived at a seat-sharing understanding in Andhra Pradesh with the former getting nine Lok Sabha and 27 Assembly seats. "We have arrived at a consensus that BJP will be given nine of the 42 Lok Sabha and 27 of the 294 Assembly seats," BJP general secretary Pramod Mahajan and TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu told reporters in Hyderabad on Wednesday. Mahajan met N Chandrababu Naidu after calling on Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani, who had a night halt here on course of his Bharat Uday Yatra.

Earlier, BJP leadership had nominated Mahajan and Arun Jaitley to negotiate with TDP on seat sharing in the state. Though BJP had been aspiring for 12 Lok Sabha and 40 assembly seats in wake of its "increased base".

TDP, headed by Naidu, parted with eight Lok Sabha and 24 assembly seats during the previous poll tie up.

Bureau Report