The rift between the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Congress is out in open now. The allied partners, who were bickering over Lok Sabha defeat few days back, are now fighting over seat allocation in the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly election. The NCP said on Sunday that the party wanted larger number of seats in the elections.

"If we had got larger number of seats for Lok Sabha elections, we should get larger number of seats in the assembly polls. We will talk to Congress over it," said Nawab Malik, NCP spokesperson.

The tiff between the allies became apparent soon after the Lok Sabha debacle. NCP leaders are especially unhappy with Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan. A few days earlier, they were miffed at the CM for slow pace of preparations for the Maharashtra Assembly election. NCP again launched an attack on the Congress leader, saying they would discuss Chavan's attitude with the party.

"CM Chavan takes decision very slowly. People of the state are angry because of this slowness. We will tell the CM and the Congress party that decisions will have to be expedited," said Malik.

In 2009, the Congress had won 17 Lok Sabha seats and NCP had won only eight seats. Based on the results, NCP had contested on 114 seats compared to 174 seats by Congress. There are 288 Assembly seats in the state. However, in this general election, Congress has got a meager two seats and NCP managed to win four of the 48 Lok Sabha seats of Maharashtra. So NCP will pressurise the Congress further for greater share of seats in the upcoming elections.