Stalemate continues over seat sharing between the NCP and the Congress with the Congress refusing to relent to NCP's 50-50 seat sharing formula. Both the parties are now threatening to go alone in the polls. The NCP will take the final call at the core committee meet later today. In the last Assembly elections, Congress had contested 174 seats while NCP had put up 114 candidates. Congress and NCP have shared power in Maharashtra since 1999, soon after Pawar quit Congress on the issue of party chief Sonia Gandhi's foreign origin. NCP has also been part of the Congress-led UPA at the Centre since 2004 and is the second-largest constituent in the opposition alliance. The talk in the Congress is that while they are ready to give around 128 to 130 seats to NCP, nothing beyond this is possible.