India, Jan. 28 -- The BJP and Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena are at loggerheads once again over power-sharing in key municipal corporations such as Mumbai, Kalyan-Dombivli and Ulhasnagar. This has resulted in an impasse in local government formation and election of mayors even ten days after the results were announced.

CM Devendra Fadnavis and deputy CM Shinde were expected to meet immediately after the former returned from Davos on Saturday. Fadnavis, however, got no response from Shinde, who took off to his village in Satara. This is being seen as the Sena's bid to put pressure on the BJP for a better power-sharing deal in the BMC and other civic bodies.

In response, the BJP resorted to similar pressurising tactics, and its leaders were ...