New Delhi, Aug 31 - The Congress Monday said it would demand almost a dozen more seats from its coalition partner Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in the upcoming assembly elections in Maharashtra.

'After the delimitation and seeing the number of seats that we have in the Lok Sabha, we will stake claim to at least a dozen more seats from that we had contested last time,' a senior party leader involved with the party's election preparation in the state, said here.

However, the leader, speaking on condition of anonymity for he is not authorised to reveal party strategy, told IANS that 'the party is confident that it will reach an amicable seat sharing arrangement' with NCP chief Sharad Pawar.

The Congress-NCP coalition government has been in power in the state for the last 10 years.