Ashok Chavan meets Sonia Gandhi

November 06, 2009 01:03 pm | Updated November 17, 2021 06:43 am IST - New Delhi

Congress president, Sonia Gandhi with Maharashtra Cheif Minister Ashok Chavan during a function in Solapur. File photo: PTI

Congress president, Sonia Gandhi with Maharashtra Cheif Minister Ashok Chavan during a function in Solapur. File photo: PTI

Maharashtra Chief Minister on Friday held discussions with Congress President Sonia Gandhi, a day after the party sealed a deal with ally Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) to form government in the state.

Mr. Chavan is understood to have discussed allocation of portfolios at the meeting where senior Congress leaders A K Antony and Ahmad Patel were also present.

Congress and the NCP announced on Thursday that they had reached an agreement on power sharing and a new government is likely to be sworn in on Saturday.

The alliance rode back to power for the third time in a row defeating opposition Shiv Sena-BJP in a mainly four-cornered contest in which Maharashtra Navnirman Sena and the Third Front tried to make inroads.

The NCP is expected to retain the key portfolios of Home, Finance, Power and Rural Development while Congress could be getting Public Health.

As government formation was delayed after declaration of assembly poll results on October 23 due to hard negotiations between Congress and NCP over portfolio-sharing, Governor S C Jamir had nudged both the parties to show a sense of urgency to put in place a government.

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