BJP-Sena tie-up remains for civic polls

By Mahesh Vijapurkar

MUMBAI, SEPT. 30. The Bharatiya Janata Party, which has a troubled relationship with the Shiv Sena, today decided to keep the alliance going by authorising its district units to work out terms of endearment locally at each of the 172 municipal councils which will go to polls on December 2 in Maharashtra.

The Sena has been more publicly critical of the BJP and the possibility of the alliance coming asunder sooner or later had not been ruled out.

An earlier view was the two should test their individual strengths at the civic poll which would cover more than a third of Maharashtra's population.

The BJP's State executive, which met under the leadership of Mr. Pramod Mahajan, the Union IT and Communications Minister - the architect of the alliance who has kept away from the bickerings between the two parties - felt that the alliance for civic polls should be at local levels.

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