Mumbai: BJP chief Amit Shah has accepted the invitation extended to him by the Shiv Sena supremo Uddhav Thackeray for visiting his residence in Mumbai today.
The development has ended all speculations over whether Amit Shah, who is in Mumbai today, will meet Uddhav or not given the fact that the relation between the two alliance partners was under stress over seat distribution for upcoming assembly elections.
The BJP chief today attended a meeting of the party's state core committee at Leader of Opposition of Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha, Vinod Tawade's residence in Vile Parle.
In this meeting BJP state observer Om Mathur, state President Devender Fadnavis, BJP Spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Vinod Tawade, and all other senior members of the State unit of BJP were present.
Pankaja Munde, daughter of BJP's veteran leader late Gopinath Munde, was also present in the meeting.
After this' Amit Shah will also attend a meeting of party workers and is also expected to participate in the ongoing Ganeshotsav by visiting two of the city's most famous Ganesh mandals.
It should be recalled that talks between BJP and Shiv Sena over seat sharing for upcoming assembly elections has been deadlocked.
The Sena-BJP-led ‘Mahayuti' had bagged 42 of the state's 48 Lok Sabha seats, reducing the Nationalist Congress Party to 4 and the Congress to 2 seats in 2014 elections.
Encouraged by its success in the Lok Sabha elections, the BJP is reportedly insisting on a greater number of seats than it had contested in the 2009 Legislative Assembly polls, when it had fought from 117 seats while the Sena fought in 171 seats.
The Shiv Sena, however, is not willing to yield to BJP's demand.
