The Congress-NCP alliance broke during the state assembly polls last year with the two deciding to contest separately.
State NCP President Sunil Tatkare told reporters here that as directed by Pawar, the state leaders had already held preliminary round of talks with the Congress on tying up for the Legislative Council polls from eight local bodies, scheduled for next month.
There will be eight vacancies in the Legislative Council with as many members elected from the local self government bodies retiring on January 1, 2016.
One is from NCP, Deepak Salunke (Solapur local bodies) and the other an independent, Arun Jagtap (Ahmednagar local bodies), who is an NCP supporter.
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Tatkare said during the next one year, biennial elections are scheduled for 30 LC seats from local bodies, teachers and MLAs constituencies.
"There will be 10 vacancies from the MLAs quota. If Congress-NCP have an alliance, we can get three out of the 10 seats," he said.
Besides this, 186 municipal council polls across the state are scheduled in November 2016, followed by municipal corporation elections in 10 major cities, including Mumbai and 27 Zilla Parishads, in early 2017, according to him.