India, Dec. 19 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Shiv Sena have worked out seat-sharing details for 150 of the 227 seats in elections to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). They will take a call on the remaining 77 seats, which are proving contentious, only after they agree on the total number of seats each party will contest. This was decided during their second meeting after elections to the January 15 civic elections were announced.

The two Mahayuti allies, which have kept their third partner, the Ajit Pawar-led NCP out of the alliance for Mumbai's civic polls, held a marathon meeting at the BJP's Dadar office on Thursday. They sealed details on contesting 150 seats, most of which had sitting corporators from either th...