Nagpur, 29 May

(HS): The Maha-Vikas Aghadi (MVA) has finalised seat sharing for the coming

elections to the Legislative Council. Out of the 17 seats from the Local

Government Authorities, including a by-poll from Nagpur, seat sharing for 15

seats has been finalised.

The Indian

National Congress will contest eight seats, Shiv Sena (UBT) on four and

Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar) will field its candidates in three

constituencies. Discussion about the remaining two seats was in progress.

The leaders of

the MVA partners was held at Yeshvantrao Chavan Hall in Mumbai. Congress

Regional Unit President Harshavardhan Sapkal said that decision on the

remaining two seats – Nanded and Nashik, will be taken soon. All the three

major partners have claimed to contest these two seats.

Congress will

contest Chandrapur, Yavatmal, Bhandara-Gondi, Amravati, Ahilyanagar, Solapur,

Dharashiv-Beed-Latur and by-poll in Nagpur. UBT Sena has decided to contest

Ratnagiri, Jalgaon, Parbhani-Hingoli and Chhatrapti Sambhajinagar. NCP (SP)

will field its candidates for Pune, Thane and Satara-Sangli seats. The decision

also indicates unity among the MVA partners.

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Hindusthan Samachar / Ajay Vasant Mardikar