{"id":9520,"date":"2015-11-17T13:15:01","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T13:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/?p=9520"},"modified":"2015-11-17T13:15:01","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T13:15:01","slug":"english-congress-ncp-may-join-hands-for-council-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/?p=9520","title":{"rendered":"<!--:en-->Congress, NCP may join hands for council elections<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en-->After a massive rout in the crucial assembly elections, now a &#8220;grand alliance&#8221; is on cards between Congress and NCP for elections to the eight legislative council seats.<\/p>\n<p>The polls are scheduled to be held in the first week of January 2016. If a senior NCP leader is to be believed, then a decision to contest the ensuing elections to the legislative council was taken a high-level meeting attended by NCP&#8217;s Ajit Pawar and Sunil Tatkare and Congress leaders Ashok Chavan, Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil and former state Congress chief Manikrao Thakre.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Congress leader Bhai Jagtap, state environment member Ramdas Kadam (both from Mumbai), Kaka Jagtap from Ahmednagar, Mahadev Mahadik from Kolhapur, Amarish Patel from Dhule-Nandurbar are among the eight members who will retire. Their term ends in December and a notification for the elections from the local self-government constituency will be issued in a day or two. &#8220;We have learnt lessons from Bihar. If BJP and Shiv Sena have to be defeated, we will have to join hands with the Congress,&#8221; the NCP leader said. In the wake of the dismal performance in the general election, NCP had terminated its alliance with Congress and had contested the 2014 assembly polls separately. &#8220;We contested the polls separately, but it was the worst-ever performance of NCP in the state,&#8221; he said.<!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a massive rout in the crucial assembly elections, now a &#8220;grand alliance&#8221; is on cards between Congress and NCP for elections to the eight legislative council seats. The polls are scheduled to be held in the first week of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9521,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9520\/revisions\/9521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9520"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=9520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}