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| To Save Alliance in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena Makes a Final Offer to the BJP
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| INDIA
, 20-September-2014
11:57:14 AM |
| The Shiv Sena has hit back against claims made by the BJP - that its long-time ally had provided "no formula" to find a way out of the current stalemate - and stated that it had offered a final seat-sharing formula in the wee hours of Saturday. (Considering a 'Formula' on Seat Sharing, Say BJP and Shiv Sena)
The two allies have been squabbling over the number of seats each of them will contest in the Maharashtra assembly elections, scheduled to be held on October 15. At stake is the post of chief minister, which will go to the party with most legislators if the coalition wins.
Sources in the Sena claimed that as per the offer, the party will contest 155 seats, while the BJP will contest 125 seats, adding that the Sena was unhappy with the way the BJP has treated it. (Shiv Sena Warns BJP on Seat-Sharing, Says 'We Are Not Asking, We Are Giving')
The BJP had earlier demanded that both the main parties in the coalition should contest 135 seats each.
Earlier in the day, top leaders of the Maharashtra BJP had met in Mumbai to discuss a way out of the current deadlock; the leaders who attended the meeting at party leader Eknath Khadse's residence include OP Mathur, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Sudhir Mungantiwar, Vinod Tawde and Devendra Fadnavis. (Seat-Sharing an Excuse to Break Alliance, Say Sena Sources on Row With BJP)
Mr Mathur later told media personnel, "There is no new proposal from the Sena. The alliance partner can come talk to us. We will go to Delhi with our list (of candidates) tomorrow". But back-channel talks between the two parties had been going on through the night, said sources.
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