Legislative council bypoll spat threatens to tear Congress and NCP apart

MUMBAI: A day after state NCP president Sunil Tatkare filed his nomination papers against Congress candidate Mohan Joshi for a legislative council election, it appeared on Tuesday that the decade-and-half-old alliance between the Congress and the NCP had plunged into crisis.

"It is unfortunate that the Congress has fielded Mohan Joshi against NCP candidate Sunil Tatkare for the by-election to the legislative council," a senior Congress minister said. "We will not be surprised if the alliance between Congress and NCP splits and they contest the ensuing assembly elections independently."

While NCP spokesperson Nawab Mallick blamed chief minister Prithviraj Chavan for the by-election mess, state Congress president Manikrao Thakre was hopeful of an amicable solution before the last date of withdrawal of nomination on August 14.

Mallick said that as a convenor of the Congress-NCP coordination committee, it was the responsibility of Chavan to consult NCP president Sharad Pawar on the candidate.

"Chavan should consulted either Pawar or deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar before declaring the nominee, but instead the Congress asked Mohan Joshi to file his nomination," he said. "It was against coalition dharma."

Mallick said there was no question of Tatkare withdrawing his nomination. "He has already resigned from the state legislative assembly and is contesting the council polls so that he is available for campaigning during the assembly polls," he said.

Thakre said the row would be discussed with the NCP.

"The Congress has the first right on the seat," he said. "In the past, the Congress had left seats for the NCP to ensure that people who join the NCP are elected to the council smoothly. Now, we expected the NCP to leave the seat for the Congress."

A Congress minister said that by fielding Tatkare the NCP was preparing the ground for terminating the 15-year-old alliance.

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