Merger or not, it may be easier to forge a “closer association” between the regional parties and the Congress, stitching up a seat-by-seat alliance.
While campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections, Sharad Pawar prophesied that within a couple of years “several regional parties will associate more closely with the Congress, or they may look at the option of merging with the Congress" He uttered these words in a late-night interview in Satara.
When I asked him about his own party, the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar), Pawar said he did not see any difference between it and the Congress.
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