<img title="Ashok Chavan" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2016/feb/04ashok-chavan.jpg" alt="Ashok Chavan" width="670" height="447" />Ashok Chavan/ File Pic
Maharashtra Congress chief Ashok Chavan on Thursday said that the party has completed the preliminary talks for a pre-poll alliance with the NCP for the coming Lok Sabha and state Assembly elections.
He was talking to reporters at Nanded where the state Congress on Thursday held a meeting of party workers from the Marathwada region.
"Preliminary talks with the NCP have been completed," he said.
"We will also take along like-minded parties such as the Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh, Samajwadi Party, Republican Party of India," the former chief minister said.
The Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party and Congress were in power in Maharashtra for 15 years. The alliance broke up before the 2014 Assembly elections.
To a question, Chavan described the BJP-led Maharashtra government's claim that rural areas of the state are now open defecation-free as "laughable".
"Even today, 40 to 45 thousand families could be without access to toilets in every district," the Congress leader claimed.
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Edited by mid-day online desk, with inputs from PTI
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He was talking to reporters at Nanded where the state Congress on Thursday held a meeting of party workers from the Marathwada region

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