Sanjay Raut hints at tough seat-sharing stance, asks Cong to ‘start from zero’

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Shiv Sena had contested the 2019 elections in alliance with the BJP and won 18 seats..

Mumbai: In an indication that the Congress party will have a tough time bargaining for seats in the Maharashtra version of Opposition's INDIA bloc, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut said on Friday the national party would have to start seat negotiations from "zero" as it hadn't won any constituency in the state in 2019..

He said his party has told senior Congress leaders that discussions on seats Sena had won would take place later than other seats.I)..

We have always said that Shiv Sena has always been fighting on 23 seats in the Lok Sabha elections and during our (INDIA alliance) meeting, we decided that discussions will be done later on the seats that we have won, Raut was quoted as saying by news agency ANI..

. Earlier this month, in the fourth meeting of the INDIA alliance, Banerjee had proposed the name of Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge for the post of the prime minister of India, should the alliance wins the elections..

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