After engaging in shadow boxing through the media, BJP and Shiv Sena leaders came together yesterday to discuss the contentious seat-sharing issue for the state assembly elections, scheduled for October. The first meeting of the old allies on the matter was held at a five-star hotel in Bandra Kurla Complex.

While the BJP was represented by state unit chief Devendra Fadnavis, leaders of opposition in the state legislature Eknath Khadse and Vinod Tawde, organising secretary Ravindra Bhusari and Pankaja Munde, Shiv Sena fielded Subhash Desai, Sanjay Raut, Ramdas Kadam, Gajanan Kirtikar and Liladhar Dake.