A SENSE OF DEPRIVATION

As the Uddhav Sena gets a lion's share in the MVA seat-sharing deal, discontent brews within Congress ranks over the leadership conceding three key seats

- Dhaval S. Kulkarni

At a time when Opposition unity and amicable seat-sharing should come as welcome news, any heartburn it causes has to remain suppressed in pursuit of the greater common good. So it is with the Maharashtra Congress, where several have been left unhappy with the party's decision to concede the Sangli and Mumbai South Central seats to the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) partner Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) and Bhiwandi to the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar). The MVA sealed its seat-sharing deal for the Lok Sabha election on April 9, with the Sena (UBT) bagging 21 seats, the Congress 17 and the NCP (SP) 10.