Mumbai: After the Nationalist Congress Party on Thursday announced to call off its ties with the Congress, the ruling party in the state said that although they offered ten more seats to the NCP, they latter was adamant to fight on 144 seats and were also demanding an equal share in tenure of CM post.
Congress leader Manikrao Thakre said that the NCP had told them that they had become powerful and hence wanted more seats now.
Expressing sadness over the end of alliance, Congress leader in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday evening said his party will go alone in the October 15 Maharashtra Assembly elections.
Earlier on Thursday evening, in a major shake-up in Maharashtra politics, the NCP had announced the end of its ties with the Congress ahead of the Assembly elections due in the state on October 15.
Ajit Pawar said that he will meet the Governor and submit his resignation as the Deputy CM of Maharashtra and withdraw NCP's support from state government.
In its press conference, the NCP claimed that the Congress had ignored them in the alliance. They asserted that the CM's position has always been held by the Congress in the 15-year-old alliance and they had demanded a change.
The decision came soon after the Bharatiya Janata Party announced the end of the 25-year-old alliance with Shiv Shiv Sena on Thursday evening.
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