New Delhi: The Congress-NCP seat-sharing talks have reached a dead end. Sources have told CNN-IBN that the Congress is sticking to the 2004 formula in Maharashtra.
The party wants to contest 27 seats in the state, leaving 21 for the NCP. The NCP has proposed to contest on 24 seats out of 48 seats, which the Congress is not willing to concede.
The Congress also insisted on a commitment from the NCP that it would support Manmohan Singh as the Prime Minister.
Meanwhile, NCP spokesperson D P Tripathy said his party was part of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) at the Centre as well as in Maharashtra and talks on the seat-sharing formula would be finalised soon.
The NCP is part of the UPA, not only at the centre, but also in Maharashtra and Goa, where the two parties are running coalition governments.
Tripathi said in other states the NCP would forge alliance with different secular parties, as Congress has refused a national alliance under the banner of the UPA for the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls.
This is the second major setback for the Congress in seat-sharing talks, after the Samajwadi Party left just six of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh.
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