NEW DELHI, Dec 27 (UNI): Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh today met Congress president Sonia Gandhi and sought her intervention to expedite the seat-sharing agreement between the two parties for the Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh.
The meeting comes a day after the Samajwadi party, in an apparent expression of dissatisfaction over Congress leader Digvijay Singh, decided to seek the intervention of Gandhi, her political Secretary Ahmed Patel, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi.
Singh had been negotiating for the Congress in the seat sharing discussions with the SP.
The Congress and the SP already had two rounds of discussions.
SP sources said that during the 15-minute long meeting, the two leaders had decided to settle the seat sharing issue at the earliest.
The sources also said Singh, who was authorised by SP Supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav to negotiate with the Congress, would soon hold talks with Gandhi, Patel and Mukherjee.
In an apparent reference to Digivjay Singh's statement that there was a likelihood of "friendly contests" between the Congress and the SP in about eight seats in Uttar Pradesh in the coming General Elections, Amar Singh told media persons yesterday that the seat sharing was aimed at ''weakening'' the ruling BSP and not for grabbing seats from each other.
The Congress and the SP already had two rounds of talks after they came closer in the wake of the support extended by the latter to the Manmohan Singh government in the motion of confidence in Parliament in July, after the Left Parties withdrew support on the Indo-US Nuclear issue.
