NCP-Cong meet on Maha postponed to tomorrow

November 19, 2019 11:42

The Congress-NCP meeting scheduled for today has been postponed to tomorrow. The NCP's Nawab Malik said that today's meeting between Congress and NCP leaders was postponed as Congress leaders are busy in different programmes due to Indira Gandhi's birth anniversary.

Yesterday, NCP leader Sharad Pawar, after a 45-minute meeting with Congress president Sonia Gandhi at her home in Delhi had said they discussed the Maharashtra political situation but not government formation with the Shiv Sena. "We have to sort out some more issues, we have not discussed forming an alliance with any party yet," Sharad Pawar told reporters, giving the impression that a Sena-NCP-Congress alliance may not be a done deal yet.

The NCP chief also rubbished speculation that he had left the door open for a tie-up with the BJP; the BJP won 105 seats in last month's Maharashtra polls and scored a comfortable majority with the Shiv Sena (56), which walked out of their alliance after a bitter power tussle. The NCP is only two seats behind the Sena.

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