Sena, BJP start power-sharing talks; 10 Ministries on table

November 28, 2014 21:32

The Bharatiya Janata Party is understood to have offered five Cabinet berths and an equal number of Minister of State posts to Shiv Sena in its Government in Maharashtra as the estranged allies today began talks to chalk out a power- sharing formula after days of acrimony between the allies.

BJP leaders Dharmendra Pradhan and Chandrakant Patil today met Sena President Uddhav Thackeray at his residence here to thrash out a power-sharing arrangement between the saffron outfits, who parted ways on the eve of October Assembly polls after 25 years of partnership.

Pradhan is a Union Minister, while Patil is a member of the Devendra Fadnavis Cabinet in Maharashtra, where BJP Government won a controversial trust vote earlier this month.

BJP has offered five Cabinet and as many Minister of State berths to Sena in the round one of talks, highly-placed sources in the ruling party said.

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