With less than a month left for the 288-member Maharashtra assembly elections, the Central Election Committee of the Congress on Thursday discussed over 45 seats taking the total number of finalised candidates to 85. The Central Election Committee (CEC) meeting was held at the residence of Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi, which was attended by several party leaders such as Ahmed Patel, Ambika Sonia, Joytiraditya Scindia, Mallikarjun Kharge, K.C. Venugopal, Veerappa Moily, Balasaheb Thorat and several others.

After the meeting, Tharot told IANS, "Today we finalised over 45 seats taking the total number of finalised candidates to 85." Tharot, who is also the Maharashtra Congress chief, said the party would clear the candidates for all the assembly seats in the coming days.