Mumbai: Union Agriculture Minister and NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Sunday met leaders of the ruling NCP and Congress alliance in Maharashtra to discuss the political situation ahead of the Lok Sabha election results, and the preparations for the Assembly elections.
Maharashtra Assembly polls are due later in 2014. Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, state Congress president Manikrao Thakre, Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and state NCP's working president Jitendra Awhad were present at the meeting.
Pawar had held a meeting with NCP ministers and Lok Sabha candidates on Saturday. Congress, too, had held a meeting of the district unit chiefs recently to plan the strategy for the Assembly polls.
Both the parties have already said that they would fight the Assembly elections in an alliance.
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