Mumbai: The stalemate continues over seat sharing between Shiv Sena and Bharatiya Janata Party for Maharashtra Assembly elections. The BJP has proposed a new seat sharing formula and has demanded between 125-130 seats, said sources on Saturday.
The BJP has refused to discuss on winnability of seats and has demanded seats in Uran, Raigad where the party has no presence.
The decision was taken at the party Central Election Committee meeting which was attended by senior leaders Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Vinod Tawde, OP Mathur and Maharashtra BJP President Devendra Phadnavis. The meeting was also held to decide on candidates for elections.
The BJP has refused to discuss on winnability of seats and has demanded seats in Uran, Raigad where the party has no presence.
The Shiv Sena will take a call on the proposal by Sunday. It has also called a meeting of district presidents at Sena Bhavan.
The Sena has made it clear that it would contest on at least 150 seats and had rejected BJP's proposal of equal seat sharing.
Earlier, the BJP rejected Sena's 119-seat formula. Maharashtra BJP leader Sudhir Mungantiwar had said, "The 119-seat formula given by the Shiv Sena is not acceptable to us. We want to discuss this issue. We want a respectable formula on seat-sharing," he said.
Even as both the sides met on Friday to end the deadlock to save the 25-year-old alliance, there was no breakthrough.
The bargaining between both the parties is likely to continue over the next few days as all is not well with the saffron alliance. Both the parties are expected to meet once again and resolve the matter. It remains to be seen who is going to blink first.
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