Seeking an urgent solution on the issue of impasse continuing over seat sharing with the Congress, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Praful Patel today appeared to send an unmistakable signal to the Congress party that it should offer more seats to his party in the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly polls.
Patel said, "We had 124 seats anyway, Congress should offer a different suggestion."
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.
The stalemate between the Congress and NCP over seat sharing is brewing with the latter not willing to contest in less than 136 seats.
Patel also said, "We have always worked shoulder to shoulder with Congress for the benefit of Maharashtra. In the present situation we want the seat division to be decided as soon as possible."
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 while the counting of votes will take place on October 19.
