Cong and NCP on collision course over seat sharing

MUMBAI: Even as Maharashtra Congress president Manikrao Thakre played down the demand of senior cabinet members and party leaders for more Lok Sabha seats on Tuesday, his party and the Sharad Pawar-led NCP appear to be on a collision course over sharing of seats in the upcoming general election.

Thakre conceded that there was a demand from senior cabinet members and MPs that the Congress should stake its claim to more seats but said it was agreed that a final decision on sharing of seats would be made after deliberations with NCP leaders.

"The state parliamentary board decided to contest the Lok Sabha polls with NCP," Thakre said. "When we actually discuss the strategy for the elections, we will ask for more seats compared to the last Lok Sabha poll," he added.

In the last Lok Sabha election, the Congress contested from 26 seats and won 16 seats, while the NCP had contested from 22 seats and won eight.

"We must insist on 29 seats and leave 19 seats for the NCP," a senior Congress minister said. "If the NCP doesn't agree, then the Congress must be ready to fight independently."

The minister said seat sharing for the Lok Sabha poll should be based on the outcome of the 2004 and 2009 general election and the outcome of the elections to the local bodies between 2009 and 2013.

"If we study the outcome of these polls, it will be found that the performance of the Congress across the state improved and there was scope for it to secure more seats than the last Lok Sabha polls," the minister said.

The minister said the Congress had staked its claim on Hingoli, Parbhani and Kolhapur seats. Last time, senior NCP leader and former Union minister Suryakanta Patil was defeated from Hingoli, the NCP nominee was defeated from Parbhani, and rebel NCP nominee Sadashiv Mandlik was elected from Kolhpur and subsequently joined the Congress as an associate member.

The Congress also staked claim for the reserved Buldhana seat and a seat each from Nashik and Jalgaon districts.

"We will have to work out a new sharing formula. We are ready to exchange certain seats where we feel we will not succeed," the minister said. "We expect a similar gesture from the NCP."

A month ago, NCP leader and Union heavy industries minister Praful Patel said that there would be no change in the seat-sharing formula but did not rule out exchange of certain seats.

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