It is on the basis of its performance in the April-May general elections that the Congress plans to stake claim to almost 170 seats this time, say party sources.

'After the delimitation (of constituencies) and seeing the number of seats that we have in the Lok Sabha, we will stake claim to at least a dozen more seats than those we contested the last time,' a Congress leader involved with the party's election preparations in the state told IANS.

Maharashtra goes to polls Oct 13.