End of Maharashtra congress committee meeting at Tilak Bhawan
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Conceding some ground to end the ongoing stalemate, the BJP on Friday decided to send a fresh seat sharing proposal to its ally Shiv Sena on 78 Assembly segments where the two parties failed to make inroad in the last 25 years in Maharashtra.
"Our proposal is that talks should be held on the seats which the Shiv Sena has not won in the last 25 years and also those by the BJP. There are 59 seats which have not been won by the Shiv Sena in last 25 years and 19 by the BJP," BJP core committee member Sudhir Mungantiwar told reporters.
Earlier in the day, BJP poll in-charge Om Mathur held a meeting of the core committee to find a solution to end the impasse with Sena over seat sharing. Maharashtra will go to polls on October 15. In 2009, Sena had contested 169 seats and the BJP on 119 seats. After the strong show in the general elections, the BJP has been demanding 135 seats this time.
On Friday evening, the Shiv Sena announced that it wished to keep the 25-year-old alliance intact. Yuva Sena chief Aditya Thackeray and senior leader Subhash Desai held meetings with the BJP leaders to hammer out a deal acceptable to both the parties. Sena leaders said the BJP has submitted a "new formula." According to Sena sources, the BJP's fresh proposal deliberates on each Assembly seat in detail.
While there were media reports saying that the two parties had already severed ties after they failed to finalise a seat sharing agreement. Mungantiwar cleared the confusion, saying that the decision to keep the alliance was taken unanimously in the party meeting by all the members. "Distribution of seats (with alliance partners) should be done on respectable terms," he asserted.
Mungantiwar also reminded the Uddhav Thackeray-led party that the BJP did not say anything when it supported NCP chief Sharad Pawar as a prime ministerial candidate. "Similarly, we did not say anything when they pitched Pratibha Patel for the President's post and also in the case of Pranab Mukherjee," he said.
"The core committee believes that the formula of BJP contesting on 119 seats is old and therefore, we will go with a new proposal to the Shiv Sena. We will ourselves send the proposal and will not go via the media," the former state BJP president said.
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"Our proposal is that talks should be held on the seats which the Shiv Sena has not won in the last 25 years and also those by the BJP. There are 59 seats which have not been won by the Shiv Sena in last 25 years and 19 by the BJP," BJP core committee member Sudhir Mungantiwar told reporters.
Earlier in the day, BJP poll in-charge Om Mathur held a meeting of the core committee to find a solution to end the impasse with Sena over seat sharing. Maharashtra will go to polls on October 15. In 2009, Sena had contested 169 seats and the BJP on 119 seats. After the strong show in the general elections, the BJP has been demanding 135 seats this time.
On Friday evening, the Shiv Sena announced that it wished to keep the 25-year-old alliance intact. Yuva Sena chief Aditya Thackeray and senior leader Subhash Desai held meetings with the BJP leaders to hammer out a deal acceptable to both the parties. Sena leaders said the BJP has submitted a "new formula." According to Sena sources, the BJP's fresh proposal deliberates on each Assembly seat in detail.
While there were media reports saying that the two parties had already severed ties after they failed to finalise a seat sharing agreement. Mungantiwar cleared the confusion, saying that the decision to keep the alliance was taken unanimously in the party meeting by all the members. "Distribution of seats (with alliance partners) should be done on respectable terms," he asserted.
Mungantiwar also reminded the Uddhav Thackeray-led party that the BJP did not say anything when it supported NCP chief Sharad Pawar as a prime ministerial candidate. "Similarly, we did not say anything when they pitched Pratibha Patel for the President's post and also in the case of Pranab Mukherjee," he said.
"The core committee believes that the formula of BJP contesting on 119 seats is old and therefore, we will go with a new proposal to the Shiv Sena. We will ourselves send the proposal and will not go via the media," the former state BJP president said.
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