Mumbai : Attempting to break the deadlock in seat-sharing talks for the October 15 Maharashtra assembly elections, BJP will send a fresh proposal to Shiv Sena even as it said it would like to contest many seats its saffron ally had not won in years.

"We will send a proposal to Sena on the number of seats we want to contest. There are 59 seats where Sena didn't win in the last 25 years and 19 where BJP didn't win. We want Sena to consider this fact. We want discussion on each seat," former state BJP president Sudhir Mungantiwar told reporters after a meeting of the party's state core committee.