Party will field candidates from all seats in Mumbai for Assembly elections and has already finalised names for 32 constituencies
Party will field candidates from all seats in Mumbai for Assembly elections and has already finalised names for 32 constituencies
The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) is ready withu00a0 Plan B if their ongoing talks with their ally, the Congress, fail.
An NCP party spokesperson from Mumbai said yesterday that the party was ready with its list of candidates for 32 of 36 Assembly seats in Mumbai, who will be fielded if the talks fail.
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Yeh Dosti? CM Ashok Chavan with Deputy Chief Minister Chhagan Bhujbal. |
"Both parties know that if they contest individually, the number of seats they'd win jointly across the state won't cross hundred.
But because the Congress has said that they may go it alone, our Plan B will be to field NCP candidates on all seats in Mumbai," the spokesperson said.
A senior NCP party member said the party was considering issuing a ticket to Pankaj Bhujbal, son of Deputy CM Chhagan Bhujbal.
"He might contest from Mazagaon a seat Bhujbal senior is not too keen on, as it is a stronghold of MNS leader Bala Nandgaonkar, who won the second highest votes during the Lok Sabha elections in South Mumbai," the NCP party member said.
The NCP is demanding 117 of the 288 Assembly seats in the state. The Congress is not ready to go beyond 105.
