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  "Opposed Sonia Gandhi In 1999": Ajit Pawar Jabs Uncle For Congress Alliance

  Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar questioned his uncle Sharad Pawar's decision to ally with the Congress within a few months after raising the issue of Sonia Gandhi's foreign origins.

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  Uddhav Thackeray As Chief Minister, Insist NCP, Congress: Sources

  Uddhav Thackeray should be chief minister of a Shiv Sena-Nationalist Congress Party-Congress alliance government in Maharashtra, leaders insisted at a meeting in Mumbai of the three parties on Friday. Sources say the Sena chief is under pressure from the NCP and the Congress to take the top post, but he has suggested other names. At a midnight meet...

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  Maharashtra Government Formation Live Updates: "Will Find A Way To Work Together", Says Uddhav Thackeray On Taking NCP, Congress Support

  Uncertainty over government formation in Maharashtra continues as the state was placed under president's rule. Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari, earlier in the day, submitted a report to the centre stating that none of the parties invited since Saturday -- the BJP, Shiv Sena, and Nationalist Congress Party -- were able to show letters of support to f...

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  Maharashtra Election Result 2019: Sharad Pawar's NCP Leads Opposition In Maharashtra, Congress Drops to 4th

  Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party has surged ahead of the Congress to be the principal opposition party in Maharashtra. The party is leading in 54 seats, a big jump from the 41 it won in 2014.

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  "As A Precaution": BJP Candidate's Wife Files Nomination From Same Seat

  About two weeks after Sujav Vikhe Patil was named as the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate from Ahmednagar, his wife, Dhanshri, also filed poll papers from the same parliamentary seat on Thursday.

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  Congress, Sharad Pawar's NCP Likely To Contest Equal Seats In Maharashtra

  After their dismal performance as allies in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) parted ways in Maharashtra and contested the assembly elections separately. However, the two parties have decided to sew their alliance back with a common objective - to keep the BJP away.

• Final Call on NCP-Congress Seat Sharing Likely This Evening

  The decision of the Congress and NCP on seat sharing for the Maharashtra elections - which has practically pushed the alliance to the edge - is expected to be announced this evening after yet another round of talks.

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  Now Smaller Allies Reject BJP-Sena Proposal, Say Too Few Seats; No Headway in Congress-NCP Talks Either

  After a day of hectic parleys, the Sena-BJP understanding over seat sharing fell to pieces late on Tuesday night, when the smaller allies rejected the new formula saying it gave too few seats to them. The NCP-Congress, too, have failed to iron out their differences.

• No ultimatum to Congress, seat sharing to be resolved in 10 days: Sharad Pawar

  Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar today denied his party giving any ultimatum to the Congress and said the seat-sharing between the two parties will be resolved in the next 10 days.

• Congress-NCP alliance for Mumbai polls sealed, NCP gets 58 seats

  After days of negotiations, Congress and NCP on Tuesday finalised the seat-sharing deal for the next month's election to the Mumbai municipal corporation.

• Trouble in NCP-Congress alliance?

  Cong's rug pulling led to the alliance's dismal performance in the elections, says the NCP as it begins its national convention in the capital.