5 NCP leaders will prepare CMP with Cong
November 13, 2019 13:13
The NCP on Wednesday named its five members for a joint committee to be formed with the Congress for deciding a 'common minimum programme' before their possible alliance with the Shiv Sena for government formation in Maharashtra.
NCP's legislature party head Ajit Pawar, its Maharashtra chief Jayant Patil, party veteran Chhagan Bhujbal, Mumbai unit president Nawab Malik and Leader of the Opposition in state Legislative Council Dhananjay Munde will be part of the committee.
The decision was taken at a meeting of NCP legislators at the Y B Chavan Centre here on Wednesday. "The NCP has named the leaders to be part of the joint committee.
The Congress will also name its members for the purpose," said a leader of the Sharad Pawar-led party.
The panel is being formed after NCP chief Sharad Pawar and senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel met here on Tuesday and expressed the need to have a common minimum programme (CMP) before working out the possibility of tying-up with the Shiv Sena.
The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena contested the October 21 state Assembly polls in alliance with the BJP. But the two parties fell out over the Shiv Sena's demand of sharing the chief minister's post on rotational basis. -- PTI
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