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NEW DELHI, May 13: With the exit polls predicting a lead for UPA in Lok Sabha elections, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh tonight held deliberations with senior party leaders engaged in the strategy for post-poll scenario.
Gandhi hosted a dinner for the leaders who manned the 'war room' of the party during the polls.
The leaders include Pranab Mukherjee, A K Antony, Janardan Dwivedi, Ambika Soni, Prithviraj Chauvan, Rajiv Shukla and Jairam Ramesh.
These leaders were part of the election management committee which used to operate from a bungalow on the Gurudwara Rakab Ganj road earlier allotted to Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh also took stock of Congress' prospects and possibility of getting new allies at a meeting with senior party colleagues here in Delhi.
Soon after polling came to an end, Singh held a meeting with senior Congress leaders Pranab Mukherjee, A K Antony and Political Secretary to the Congress President Ahmed Patel, at his residence.
During the meeting, the leaders discussed the post-poll scenario and getting more political allies for forming the next government, sources said.
"We are expecting around 220-225 seats and are sure that automatically we will get new allies," a Congress leader said after the meeting.
Commenting on the Exit polls on TV channels predicting the UPA to be the single-largest alliance, they said, "We are going to get more than what they are showing."
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