The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sena are close to clinching a seat-sharing arrangement between them and smaller partners for the Assembly elections in Maharashtra.
“The seat sharing arrangement is being re-negotiated,” Union Minister of State Prakash Javadekar said here on Friday.
The grand alliance (Mahayuti) between the BJP, Sena and others is trying to wrest power after a gap of 15 years.
Indications are that a formula is being worked out on the basis of the performance of the two parties in the State in the recent Lok Sabha elections, which may bring more seats for the BJP than the 117 it had fought in 2009. The Sena had contested 171 seats. In a stellar performance the BJP had won 23 of the 48 Lok Sabha seats while the Shiv Sena was victorious in 18.
