Maharashtra Govt Formation Deadlock: Meeting between Congress and NCP to discuss alliance with Sena was called off

NCP President Sharad Pawar had a meeting with Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Monday.

With the two saffron parties parted ways, the Sena exploring the possibility of tying up with the Congress-NCP. Image Source: Outlook India
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Tuesday (November 19): Due to pre-occupation of Congress leaders with Indira Gandhi’s birth anniversary events, meeting with the Congress scheduled today to further discuss the possibility of government formation in Maharashtra was called off, NCP leader Nawab Malik said.

He said Congress leaders requested that the meeting be postponed to Wednesday.

The two sides have deputed leaders for holding talks on a possible alliance.

Accordingly Mallikarjun Kharge, Ahmed Patel and Congress general secretary K C Venugopal besides some state leaders and Praful Patel, Sunil Tatkare, Ajit Pawar, Jayant Patil of the NCP were to meet to explore the possibility of an alliance with the Shiv Sena in the state.

NCP President Sharad Pawar had a meeting with Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Monday.

He said if the NCP-Congress have to take a view on government formation, they have to first discuss it between themselves.

In the October 21 Maharashtra polls, the BJP-Sena saffron alliance secured a comfortable majority by winning 105 and 56 seats respectively in the 288-member assembly. The Congress and the NCP, pre-poll allies, won 44 and 54 seats respectively.

However, failing to evolve a consensus over the chief minister’s post, the two saffron parties parted ways, with the Sena exploring the possibility of tying up with the Congress-NCP.

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