Congress to demand more seats in Maharashtra this time

September 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) late Tuesday formally announced they will contest the Oct 13 Maharashtra assembly polls together. The Congress and the NCP will contest 174 and 114 seats respectively, Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, state Congress president Manikrao Thakre and NCP leader Praful Patel told mediapersons at the Congress headquarters here.

September 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress party on Thursday announced that it will contest 174 seats in the October 13 assembly elections in Maharashtra, while its partner, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) will contest 114. Addressing the media here, Chaudhary Virendra Singh, who oversees Congress affairs in the state of Maharashtra, said, the seat-sharing arrangement has been finalised after several rounds of talks.

September 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) is ready to concede more seats to its ally Congress in the Maharashtra elections and seat sharing talks between them are going on smoothly, NCP leader Praful Patel said Wednesday. "The Congress contested a large number of seats last time, they will contest more seats this time.

September 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) is ready to concede more seats to its ally Congress in the Maharashtra assembly elections and seat sharing talks between them are going on smoothly, NCP leader Praful Patel said Wednesday. "The Congress contested a large number of seats last time, they will contest more seats this time.

September 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Maharashtra Congress leaders on Tuesday met at Defence Minister AK Antony's residence to discuss seat-sharing formula for the next month's assembly elections. Maharashtra's Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, former Chief Minister Narayan Rane, Union Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh and Mumbai's Congress party Chief Kripa Shankar Singh attended the meeting.

September 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) are set to hold formal talks later Tuesday for a seat-sharing formula for the Maharashtra assembly elections, party officials said here. "Th first official talks with the NCP for seat sharing will take place in the evening in Mumbai," Manikrao Thakre, chief of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee, told reporters after meeting A.K.

September 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress Friday appointed Heavy Industries Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh as chairman of the election management committee for Maharashtra polls. "Congress president Sonia Gandhi has nominated Vilasrao Deshmukh as the chairman of the election management committee for the ensuing assembly election in Maharashtra," Janardan Dwivedi, chairman of party's media department, said in a release here.

September 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar Tuesday urged the Congress to be "pragmatic" about seat sharing arrangement for Maharashtra assembly polls. We are expecting (the) Congress party to convey their thinking...they have to take a pragmatic step, Pawar told NDTV television channel when asked about the Congress demanding more seats this time.

May 16th, 2009 MUMBAI - Early counting trends in Maharashtra Saturday indicated a setback for the Bharatiya Janata Party-Shiv Sena combine, with the Congress and its ally Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leading in many seats. As per counting trends at 10.30 a.m., the BJP and the Shiv Sena were leading in eight seats each, while the Congress is leading in 14 and the NCP in 10 seats, an election department official said.

April 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress and its allies are expected to win more seats from Maharashtra and Punjab in the Lok Sabha elections, according to an NDTV opinion poll released Wednesday. The Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) are likely to win 30 seats in Maharashtra, up from their current tally of 23, while the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP)-Shiv Sena alliance's number is expected to come down from 25 to 18 in the state's 48 seats, the NDTV said in a statement on the poll.

March 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - After its failure to cobble a poll alliance with the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) in Bihar, the Congress party Monday stuck a deal over sharing of seats with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in Maharashtra. 'We will fight unitedly as alliance partners in Maharashtra.

March 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has finalised the seat-sharing arrangement in Maharashtra for upcoming Lok Sabha elections. All India Congress Committee (AICC) media department chief M.

March 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Tuesday said that it has finalized seat-sharing agreement with the Congress on most of the parliamentary constituencies of Maharashtra. NCP spokesperson D.P.

March 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress and its United Progressive Alliance (UPA) partner Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Wednesday struck an alliance in Maharashtra for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan told reporters that the two parties had arrived at a seat-sharing arrangement for 40 of the 48 seats in the state.

March 3rd, 2009 MUMBAI - Maharashtra goes to the polls over three phases on April 16, 23 and 30 to elect its 48 representatives to the Lok Sabha. Voting for the two Lok Sabha constituencies in Goa will be held on April 23, the Election Commission announced Monday.