Maharashtra assembly election: Crucial day for Maha Vikas Aghadi as seat-sharing deal set to be finalised

Maharashtra's Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi is apparently close to finalising the details of seat sharing for next month's assembly elections. A key meeting is being held today, attended by senior leaders from both sides.

The Congress and Uddhav Thackeray faction of Shiv Sena, who had been facing a deadlock over a handful of seats in Mumbai, Nashik and Vidarbha, are hoping to negotiate for a way out with the good offices of veteran leader Sharad Pawar, the chief of Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) and the moving force behind the three-party alliance since its inception.

With his intervention, the state leaders of the Congress and the Shiv Sena UBT had come back to the drawing board, reports said.