India, Dec. 8 -- After weeks of bitter tussle over the poaching of each other's local leaders, the BJP and Shiv Sena seem to have agreed on a truce. A day after senior BJP minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule said that the two parties will not poach each other's people, deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde and state BJP chief Ravindra Chavan came together at a public function in Dombivli. Even as the duo shared the dais, in a seeming show of unity, the fault lines were visible. Sena leader and industries minister Uday Samant who was sitting between the duo got up and offered his seat to Chavan, following which the latter began chatting with Shinde. However, the body language of the deputy CM did not seem very friendly.

In the same function, ...