The seat sharing talks between the Congress-NCP and Shiv Sena-BJP alliance are yet to reach a conclusion, even as nominations for the Maharashtra assembly elections close this Friday.
The seat sharing talks held between the Congress-NCP alliance in Mumbai today for the upcoming Maharashtra assembly elections remained inconclusive.

The meeting was held at Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan's official residence – Varsha. Senior Congress leader Narayan Rane told reporters that the two sides have decided to meet again at 8.30 tonight as no solution could be arrived at in this meeting.

Marathon discussions have been going on in both the party bastions ahead of this meeting. An NCP core committee meeting was held in Mumbai yesterday attended by party chief Sharad Pawar. A meeting of Congress leaders was also held at chief minister Prithviraj Chavan’s official residence Varsha to discuss the issue which went on till late in the night.

Meanwhile, seat sharing talks were also being held between the leaders of the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance in Mumbai. BJP’s Maharashtra election in-charge Om Mathur, State Unit Chief Devendra Fadnavis, Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra Assembly Eknath Khadse, Leader of Opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Council Vinod Tawde are present at the meeting along with Shiv Sena leaders like Subhash Desai, Anil Desai and Sanjay Raut.

The BJP yester sent a fresh proposal to the Shiv Sena, offering to contest 130 seats in the 288-member Maharashtra assembly. Initially the party had been insisting on contesting 135 seats.