The meeting between Congress president Sonia Gandhi and NCP chief Sharad Pawar scheduled on Sunday to discuss the way forward for government formation in Maharashtra has been postponed to Monday, sources said today.
The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief will fly to Delhi from Mumbai on Sunday evening, the sources said.
The two are scheduled to meet to discuss forming government with Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena in Maharashtra, senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge had said on Friday.
The massive political turmoil in Maharashtra that has divided two of the country's oldest allies has also triggered a revision of seating arrangements in the Rajya Sabha. The Shiv Sena, which walked out of the Modi government at the centre this week, will sit in the opposition benches in the Rajya Sabha, party spokesperson Sanjay Raut said.
"We have got to know that the seating arrangement of two Shiv Sena MPs has been changed in the parliament," he said. Mr Raut is one of the three MPs of the Shiv Sena in the upper house.
Politics in Maharashtra took an unexpected turn after the Shiv Sena walked away from its longtime ally BJP over sharing the chief ministerial post after Assembly results were declared on October 24.