Gujarat elections: NCP says it will contest alone after talks with Congress fail
The parties contested the last two polls in alliance.
The Nationalist Congress Party on Monday said it will contest the Gujarat Assembly elections on its own after talks on sharing seats with the Congress failed, PTI reported.
“We wanted to contest in Gujarat in alliance with the Congress and had talks with them initially,” NCP leader Praful Patel told ANI. “But the Congress did not seem serious and kept on delaying it, so we will fight alone.”
The party is confident of doing even better fighting the elections alone, Patel said.
We wanted to contest in Gujarat in alliance with Congress and had talks with them too initially, but Congress did not seem serious and kept on delaying,so we will fight alone.Confident that we will do even better alone:Praful Patel,NCP pic.twitter.com/eYBRbUrZi0
— ANI (@ANI) November 20, 2017
The Congress and NCP contested the previous two Gujarat elections in alliance. The NCP, led by Sharad Pawar (pictured above), has two MLAs in the current Assembly. The alliance broke down after the NCP demanded more seats than the Congress was willing to part with, according to PTI.
