NCP will 'definitely' join govt, but bargains hard

NCP leader Praful Patel on Tuesday said his party will "definitely" be part of the Congress-led ministry in Maharashtra, but asserted that the NCP will stick to the 1999 berth-sharing formula. The two parties--the Congress with 82 seats and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) with 62 seats in the 288-member assembly--are locked in a bitter squabble over allocation of portfolios, causing a delay in the forming of the new government.