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Raj met Uddhav at his Bandra residence ‘Matoshree’.
The meeting between the two leaders is being seen as a last-minute step to resolve the intricacies of seat-sharing.
Elections to 29 municipal bodies, including the 227-member Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, will be held on January 15 and counting of votes will take place the next day. Tuesday was the last day for filing nomination papers.
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MNS and Shiv Sena (UBT) are contesting the civic polls in alliance in Mumbai and several other cities. In Mumbai, both the parties have formed an alliance with NCP (SP).
While there is still no clarity on how many seats the two parties are contesting in the BMC, sources said the Sena (UBT) will contest over 150 seats and 11 seats have been allotted to the Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP), while the rest will go to the MNS.
The Sena (UBT) and MNS had last week announced a pre-poll alliance for the Mumbai civic polls.
The BMC election can be seen as a big battle for Uddhav Thackeray as he attempts to regain control of the country’s richest civic body, which was ruled by the undivided Shiv Sena from 1997 to 2022.
Ruling ally BJP and Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena will contest 137 and 90 seats respectively in the BMC elections.
(edited by : Sarabasti Biswas,