Mumbai, Sep 15 - A three-hour-long meeting to finalise the seat-sharing formula between Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) for the upcoming Maharashtra assembly elections remained inconclusive here late Tuesday night, a Congress leader said.

Another meeting is slated here Wednesday to finalise the seat-sharing arrangements, the leader said.

This was the first and much-anticipated official round of talks between the two parties, held at 'Varsha', the official residence of Chief Minister Ashok Chavan.

Earlier today, state Congress chief Manikrao Thakre held a meeting with A.K. Antony, the Congress general secretary in-charge of the state to discuss the modalities for the talks with the NCP.

NCP circles claimed that the two parties shall contest the Oct 13 elections jointly.