Maharashtra Congress Holds Strategy Session To Resolve Seat Sharing Issue

The Maharashtra Congress is in a huddle to recalibrate their strategy for seat sharing in the state, which has been on ice for weeks. The meeting with allies, scheduled for Monday, was pushed back again. The Congress, which went on a spree last month, sealing deals with Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party and Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party — is facing a hurdle with allies of the Maha Vikas Aghadi in Maharashtra. The rough template for seat sharing is this: The Congress will get close to 18 of the state’s 48 seats, the Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena 18-20 seats and the Sharad Pawar faction of the Nationalist Congress Party will get 8-10 seats. Around 6 seats are undecided, sources said.