In a sign of differences between the Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena and the Congress just a month before the Maharashtra Assembly elections, the regional party has said that it will not hold seat-sharing discussions with state Congress President Nana Patole.
On Thursday, sources in the opposition alliance, comprising the Congress, the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena and the Sharad Pawar faction of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), which is known as the Maha Vikas Aghadi, had said that a consensus had been reached on 260 of the state's 288 Assembly constituencies.