Mayawati Wanted A Seat In Chhindwara: Kamal Nath On Why Talks Failed

Congress leader Kamal Nath's long-time parliamentary base Chhindwara was not spared as Mayawati handed the list of seats she wanted to contest in the November 28 Madhya Pradesh election. She wouldn't budge, neither would the Congress, which led to their alliance talks crashing. "The number of seats and the type of seats they wanted didn't come to a winning combination," Kamal Nath, 72, said on NDTV's The Countdown. The Congress had offered Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party 25, even 30 of the state's 230 seats if they could defeat the BJP in those, he said. Mayawati demanded a seat in Chhindwara, from where Kamal Nath has won nine Lok Sabha elections.