India, Dec. 10 -- After a series of clashes among members of the ruling coalition through the first phase of local body polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) have decided to bury the hatchet and contest the last two phases of the polls in an alliance. In fact, BJP and Sena are likely to contest the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) together; and it is learnt that talks on seat sharing are expected to begin soon after the winter session of the Assembly ends.

In the recent past, fault lines between BJP and Sena had deepened as each poached from the other's party and pitted candidates against each other in the recently concluded municipal council and nagar panchayat elections. But, la...