Summary:
According to their seat-sharing pact with BJP, the Sena will fight from 124 of the 288 assembly seats. "To come to power with favourable power-sharing terms, it is necessary to ensure a good strike rate on the seats allocated to us. Yuva Sena chief and Shiv Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray, who is Sena president Uddhav Thackeray's elder son, will contest from Worli in Mumbai, and is being soft-projected as the party's face for the position of chief minister or deputy chief minister. The Shiv Sena leader said the alliance with the BJP was a given despite the obvious compromises that they had to accept. The BJP had also succeeded in ensuring that regional and sub-regional satraps with substantial "elective merit" had joined their ranks than that of the Shiv Sena..