Maharashtra: Congress and NCP seal seat-sharing deal

Mumbai | Friday | 15th February, 2019

Summary:

While NCP will contest from 22 seats, Congress will put their candidates in 26 of them. The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), in a meeting on Thursday, finalised the number of seats that they would share in the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls. According to senior NCP leaders, NCP chief Sharad Pawar in a meeting with Congress president Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi on Wednesday finalised the sharing of seats. The Congress and NCP will have to give seats to all the smaller parties from their own quota. "We sat in a meeting in Mumbai to discuss the probable names for Lok Sabha seats," said Ajit Pawar..