India, Dec. 6 -- With the first phase of the local body polls coming to an end, and the remaining two to follow in the next six weeks, the three parties in the ruling Mahayuti - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) - have decided to set aside their internal bickering and take the path of harmony. All three are expected to hold a joint meeting over the next couple of days to discuss the civic body elections.

This comes on the back of BJP's joint national general secretary Shiv Prakash holding a closed-door meeting with deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde on Wednesday, where seat sharing for Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections was discussed, based on BJP's survey reports on the probabl...