Guwahati, March 11: The North East People’s Forum (NEPF) is ready with its blueprint for the coming Lok Sabha elections in the Northeast.

The NEPF will now thrash it out with the leadership of the ruling National Democratic Alliance over the next couple of days in order to finalise various details, particularly seat-sharing arrangements among various constituents.

NEPF convenor and Nagaland chief minister Neiphiu Rio is already in Delhi in this connection.

“An NEPF team led by Rio will hold discussions with the NDA,” said B.B. Dutta, a senior leader of the forum.

He said the team would include Purno A. Sangma. The NEPF is the former Lok Sabha Speaker’s brainchild.

Dutta said over telephone from Calcutta before leaving for New Delhi that the team would talk mainly to leaders of the BJP, the main constituent of the ruling alliance at the Centre.

“But we’ll also talk to other leaders like NDA convenor George Fernandes and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu,” he said.

The initiative became “imperative” following the rigid stand of the Assam BJP against any such broad-based understanding. This has seen it pitting candidates against some like-minded parties as well as some NDA constituents, another senior NEPF leader said.

He said the front would make a last-ditch attempt to work out a seat-sharing formula with the BJP and other NDA constituents as well as the Asom Gana Parishad in Assam. The latter has the highest number of Lok Sabha seats in the region — 14.