Sinn Féin leads in the Irish General Election exit poll with 21.1% of first-preference votes, followed closely by Fine Gael at 21% and Fianna Fáil at 19.5%.
Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena faction seeks parity in seat sharing with Congress in Maharashtra, risking the party's historic low in upcoming elections.
When asked about meeting L-G Manoj Sinha to stake claim for government formation, Farooq Abdullah said the two alliance partners were busy with meetings
After 2014 assembly polls gave a fractured mandate the BJP and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had formed a coalition government that fell on June 19, 2018