New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party Core Committee to meet at Union Minister Nitin Gadkari's residence in the national capital on Tuesday to discuss seat sharing issue in Maharashtra ahead of Assembly elections.
The meeting will take place at 11 AM.
The trouble has been brewing in the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance as the former rejected the 135-seat sharing compromise formula offered by the latter for state Assembly elections. The Sena was adamant and said it will contest on at least 150 seats in the 288-member Assembly.
The BJP had offered the compromise formula after the Sena threatened to snap ties.
Sena supremo Uddhav Thackeray had said, "We are already holding discussions with BJP. Whenever something will be decided you will know."
On Sunday, BJP leader in-charge of Maharashtra affairs Rajiv Pratap Rudy said the party had proposed that after allotting respective share of seats to smaller alliance partners, including RPI (Athavale) and Swabhiman Party led by Raju Shetty, the remaining seats should be divided equally between BJP and Shiv Sena.
"Based on this, we expect to contest about 135 seats, leaving the same number to Shiv Sena", Rudy had said.
Traditionally, Shiv Sena gets a larger chunk of seats in the Assembly elections, while the BJP contests more seats in Lok Sabha polls. In the 2009 Assembly polls, Shiv Sena had contested 169 seats and won 44, while BJP bagged 46 despite putting up candidates in only 119 seats.
Thackeray also sought to become the next Maharashtra Chief Minister. "I want the people to give me a chance and they will not be given a chance to complain," he had said on Saturday during an interaction organised by a private news channel.
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