Uddhav Thackeray’s Sena Won’t Discuss Seat-Sharing With Congress’s Nana Patole: Sources

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. 

Speaking on Friday, however, senior Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leader and MP Sanjay Raut said the allies had agreed on only 200 seats and taken a dig at Nana Patole without naming him, saying leaders in the Maharashtra Congress leaders are “not capable of taking decisions”.