By our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network - Panaji
 
Panaji, Jan 21: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leaders today said that the party high command in Delhi would be holding discussions  with the Congress leadership  to sort out the seat sharing imbroglio for the ensuing Loksabha election.
 
"It is for the high commands of the respective parties (NCP and Congress) in Delhi to decide on the seat sharing formula  in Goa," NCP's Goa Unit spokesman Surendra Furtado said.
 
The Congress and NCP are on a war path in Goa over seat sharing arrangements,  with both the parties putting forth their claim for the North Goa constituency.
 
While NCP has short listed names of six probable candidates for  North Goa, the Congress has amply made it clear that it would like to field its own candidate for the seat and that it is in no mood  to leave the seat for the NCP.
 
North Goa seat is currently held by BJP MP Shripad Naik. During the last parliamentary elections, NCP Goa unit chief Dr Wilfred De Souza was an alliance candidate in North Goa, but he lost the election.
 
"We lost last time, as the Congress legislators never supported us. Still we managed to get sizeable votes without any campaigning," Furtado, who is a De Souza loyalist, said.
 
Furtado felt, that if the Congress is very firm on holding on to the North Goa seat, then it should let the NCP field its candidate from the South Goa constituency.
 
Goa Pradesh Congress Committee president Subhash Shirodkar earlier had said that they would request party chief Sonia Gandhi to let them fight both the Loksabha seats in  Goa,  as NCP has no substantial base in North Goa.