The Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party may be reaching an uneasy truce in Maharashtra for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The two parties are likely to arrive at a 23-25 seat sharing formula between the BJP and the Shiv Sena in Mahrashtra.

Maharashtra has a total of 48 Lok Sabha seats.

On whether the BJP and the Shiv Sena will contest an equal number of seats, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut said his party would play the role of a big brother.

"We are the big brother in Maharashtra, we were the big brother and will stay the big brother," Raut was quoted as saying by ANI.

Sanjay Raut on reports of BJP & Shiv Sena to fight on equal number of seats: We have no information about it, you (media) people know more. We don't have such proposal, & we're not sitting here to accept such a proposal. We reiterate Shiv Sena will play the role of a big brother. https://t.co/w67Z5kP3u8 ANI (@ANI) January 28, 2019

According to sources, the Shiv Sena had demanded an equal 24-24 seat sharing distributed between it and the BJP.

However, the Sena also wanted the Palgahar seat, which the BJP had won in a bypoll in May last year.

The BJP however is not willing to give up Palghar and so has instead agreed to give Shiv Sena a total of 25 seats.

The BJP itself would then contest on 23 seats.