INDIA Bloc Seat Sharing Talks In Progress For Maharashtra, UP Next

The Opposition INDIA bloc is moving fast with discussions on seat-sharing, scheduling meetings cheek-by-jowl in multiple states. After talks started on Delhi and Punjab, today is the turn of two of the country's largest states -- Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra -- which account for 128 of the 545 Lok Sabha seats. While a meeting is on way in Mumbai between the Shiv Sea UBT, Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party and the Congress in Maharashtra, one more is scheduled this evening to divide the 80 seats of Uttar Pradesh.That will be held at 6 pm at the Delhi residence of senior party leader Mukul Wasnik.