The Shiv Sena [Images] and the Bharatiya Janata Party [Images] on Saturday announced that they have reached a seat-sharing agreement for the October 13 Maharashtra assembly elections. "Shiv Sena will contest 169 and BJP 119 seats for the 288-member assembly," BJP General Secretary Gopinath Munde [Images] told mediapersons in suburban Bandra in Mumbai [Images].
"Our dream is to come to power in Maharashtra by ousting the Congress-NCP government. Who becomes the Chief Minister is immaterial," Munde said at a press conference in Rang Sharda.
"Sena chief Bal Thackeray [Images] had directed us to formally announce the alliance on 'Ghatsthapana Day' today," he said, adding he would also address the victory rally of the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance.
State BJP President Nitin Gadkari said the list of BJP candidates would be finalised in Delhi [Images] on Saturday evening. "Gadkari would take a decision on allotting a constituency to Poonam Mahajan [Images], daughter of slain BJP leader Pramod Mahajan [Images]," Munde said. The Sena-BJP alliance will have a joint election manifesto, he said.
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