'Congress, NCP must contest Assembly polls together'
Source: The Sangai Express

New Delhi, September 20 2014 : Congress leader in the Lok Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday indicated that based on the current political situation in the country it was essential that both the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) jointly fights the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly polls.

"Everything will be fine.

Every party wants to fight maximum number of seats.

High command will take the decision� It is important to fight together at this time," Kharge said here while reacting on the seat sharing impasse with its ally NCP.

According to reports, the stalemate between the Congress and NCP over seat sharing is brewing with the latter not willing to contest in less than 136 seats.

The Congress has reportedly offered only 125 seats to its ally keeping the rest of the seats with itself to contest in the upcoming state assembly polls.

During the 2009 Maharashtra Assembly elections, the Congress had contested in 174 seats while the NCP had fought in 114 seats.

The polling for 288 assembly seats in Maharashtra is scheduled to be held on October 15.The counting of votes will take place on October 19 .

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