Congress MP Shashi Tharoor says, “Negotiations will be taking place on a state-by-state basis. You cannot have a one-size-fits-all formula for the states that is because our country is complicated…In Kerala, the CPM & the Congress can never be expected to get together in such sharing seats. But next door in Tamil Nadu, CPM, CPI, Congress & DMK are all allies and have fought the last elections together and will fight the next one together…”