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A crucial meeting to discuss the seat-sharing formula for the Maharashtra Assembly elections will be held between the BJP and the Shiv Sena on Monday. The State goes to the polls in October.
The Shiv Sena, led by its President Uddhav Thackeray, is expected to demand more number of seats from the BJP.
The meeting would be held in the Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha Bhavan, which is a break from convention. In the past, such meetings were held at the Thackeray residence.
The right-wing Hindutva party, which celebrated its 53rd foundation day recently, had publicly said that the next chief minister of the State will be from the Shiv Sena.
In an editorial in the party’s mouthpiece Saamna , the Shiv Sena said that although it is in alliance with the BJP, the party is also capable of thinking independently. It is going to the polls with only one resolve: saffronising the Maharashtra Assembly. There will be a Shiv Sena Chief Minister in the driving seat.
However, a senior BJP leader told BusinessLine that before the 2014 elections, Sena had made similar statements. It did not form a pre-election with alliance the BJP.
The Shiv Sena and the BJP fought separately, in which the former could manage only 63 seats while the BJP bagged 122.
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