Summary:
The Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) have finalised the seat-sharing for the Maharashtra state Assembly polls. However, declarations of the candidates are postponed due to pitrupaksha and possible poaching of incumbent party candidates. "We have also finalised the 50 candidates list but decided not to declare it now. Therefore, the finalised candidate names will be declared once the pitrupaksha gets over. Senior Congress leader said that last week they had a meeting with the Congress president Sonia Gandhi where the majority of the candidate names were finalised..