Mumbai : The BJP and the Shiv Sena have decided to enter a nuptial knot agreement in the hung Kalyan-Dombivali Municipal Corporation. Under this power-sharing arrangement, the post of mayor and that of the standing committee chairman will be by rotation with the BJP taking the first call. Ending the suspense over the post poll alliance, the BJP and the Shiv Sena on Friday officially announced their decision to come together in the KDMC. This is in keeping with the strategy of the two parties to contest elections alone in the future and enter into a post alliance, if need be. State Finance Minister and former state BJP president Sudhir Mungantiwar has been authorised by the party to decide the finer details of the power arrangement. With that culminates a period of friction marked by much needling of the BJP by the Sena. Mungantiwar will now meet senior Shiv Sena leader and Minister for Public
Undertakings and Guardian Minister of Thane Eknath Shinde to formalise the arrangement. Shiv Sena leader and Environment Minister Ramdas Kadam had hinted at the alliance while speaking at a program in Aurangabad earlier in the day, while a senior BJP leader disclosed that the process of warming up began when the Sena made the first move and there was a late night meeting between senior leaders of both the parties on Thursday. The BJP has 49 and the Shiv Sena 52 members in the 122-member house while the Congress has 4 and the NCP 2 members. The MNS had teamed with an independent to form a group of 10, which left little scope for the two big parties but to come together.