The Congress Central Election Committee (CEC) held a meeting at the AICC headquarters here on Monday to discuss candidates for the Maharashtra Assembly elections.
Ramesh Chennithala, AICC in-charge of Maharashtra, said the CEC discussed a total of 63 seats in Maharashtra. The meeting was attended by Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, CPP leaders Sonia Gandhi and LoP Rahul Gandhi, Congress General Secretary (Organizational) KC Venugopal, Maharashtra Congress President Nana Patlu, and Chennithala. attended the meeting.
Chennithala said Maha Vikas Aghadi voters will meet in Mumbai on Tuesday and the final seat-sharing agreement for the Maharashtra assembly polls will be signed. A press conference has been scheduled for the allies in Mumbai, where details of seat-sharing will be announced.
On Sunday, the stalemate over seat-sharing between the Congress and the Shiv Sena (UBT), two of the three constituent parties in the MVA, ended with Sharad Pawar of the NCP (SP), the third party in the MVA It continued even though the party leader appeared to be playing a mediating role.
Both the Congress and Shiv Sena (UBT) on Monday maintained that there is no major difference between them regarding seat allocation in the assembly elections. Both parties said the differences were limited to a few seats in Vidarbha and would be resolved in a day or two.
Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut criticized the latter for showing “generosity” by surrendering three seats of Kolhapur, Amravati and Ramtek to the Congress during the assembly polls. He expressed his hope that his attitude would be rewarded. Vidarbha for the Assembly polls.
Ignoring the possibility of the Congress severing ties with the Shiv Sena (UBT), opposition leader Vijay Wadettiwar on Monday termed the alliance as strong as ‘Fevicol’.
