Mumbai: Some reports had claimed on Thursday that alliance of Bharatiya Janata Party with Shiv Sena in Maharashtra over. Some media quoted BJP sources as saying that they have given up on the 25-year-old alliance after failing to solve the seat-sharing issue with Shiv Sena for the Assembly election of Maharashtra.
The development came shortly after BJP president Amit Shah cancelled his planned visit to Mumbai for the second time in two days.
Shah was due to travel to Mumbai yesterday to hold talks with Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray amid deadlock in talks over seat-sharing for the October 15 state elections.
Meanwhile the visit was postponed yesterday, it was cancelled altogether this morning.
It had appeared last night that the ‘Mahayuti’ alliance of Shiv Sena, BJP and four smaller parties may survive after the smaller allies, who were unhappy with Shiv Sena’s latest offer to BJP which left just seven seats for them, agreed to scale down their demand from 18 to 14 seats.
While BJP was open to giving some seats to the smaller allies from its quota, it was not ready to meet the full deficit of seven seats.
Shiv Sena however refused to give up any more seats to save the alliance after settling for 151.
Bureau Report
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