Cong-NCP tie-up runs into rough weather in Thane

Mumbai, Jan 12 (UNI) The Congress-NCP seat sharing talks have run into rough weather in neighbouring Thane, which is going to polls along with nine other municipal corporations on February one.

Maharashtra Congress Spokesman Hussain Dalwai said NCP will contest 64 as against 52 of the Congress in the 116 member Thane Municipal Corporation. However, the NCP is not ready to allot five constituencies where Congress has presently sitting corporators.

Mr Dalwai said the poll alliance is also in the process of being formalised in Akola and Nashik.

Meanwhile, the party's Parliamentary Board meetings are in progress at Tilak Bhavan, the Congress state unit headquarters, to finalise the list of candidates for civic bodies where the Congress is going alone like Pune, Nagpur, Pimpri-Chinchwad and Amravati.

Maharashtra Congress chief Prabha Rau and Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh participated in the meeting.

''We focussed on alliance with NCP in places where Shiv Sena-BJP is in power,'' Mr Dalwai added.

UNI