After more than a month of bitter squabbling, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday announced the Shiv Sena will join the Devendra Fadnavis government in Maharashtra.
The names and portfolios are expected to be finalised by Thursday night. The BJP is also roping in allies who may be part of the oath ceremony Friday or the expansion to be held in January.
"The people's mandate is for us to get together for running the government. We honour the feeling of the people, workers of both Sena and BJP," said chief minister Fadnavis at a press conference addressed jointly by him and Sena leader Subhash Desai.
Twelve ministers from the Sena, five of cabinet rank and seven ministers of state, will be sworn in on Friday.
The Uddhav Thackeray-led party will not get the deputy chief minister's post which it had been bargaining for all the while.
Fadnavis said his party would have 8-10 ministers taking oath on Friday.
"The number may increase or decrease. We also want small allies to get ministries," he said.
The two parties will form a coordination committee to work out modalities for alliance in the muncipality and panchayat levels.
The first indications of a breakthrough came earlier this week when Fadnavis said that 80% of the alliance talks were completed and only a few things remained to be a sorted out.
The BJP and the Sena were allies for 25 years, but had parted ways over seat sharing ahead of the assembly polls held in October. The two were in power between 1995 and 1999. Then, the Sena had the CM with the BJP playing the junior partner.
Now the BJP is in dominant position with 121 MLAs and the Sena has just 63.
When the BJP emerged the single largest party but landed short of a majority, the Sena announced it will sit in the opposition.
The Sena also voted against BJP in the confidence motion, and when the Speaker declared that Fadnavis had won, joined the Congress in protest.?
The two parties now have close to 180 MLAs and can provide a stable government in Maharashtra.
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