New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party and Shiv Sena have finalised a seat sharing deal for the Maharashtra assembly election where 144 seats will be contested by the former and 126 by the latter, say reports.NDTV quoted sources in BJP as having disclosed that Sena would be getting the post of the deputy chief minister in case of a victory. It further reported that BJP’s most used campaign face, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, had been keen on furthering the alliance.An official announcement is reportedly expected on Sunday.BJP president Amit Shah had on Thursday chaired a meeting of the party’s core group from Maharashtra to give final shape to its poll strategy, including this seat-sharing deal with Shiv Sena, and zero down on candidates for the state assembly elections on October 21.Also read: In Repeat of 2014, Shiv Sena and BJP Tussle Over Seat SharingThe news of the agreement comes amidst reports of unease in the saffron alliance in Maharashtra in view of the BJP offering fewer seats to the Sena instead of an equal division of seats.The strength of the Maharashtra assembly is 288. The remaining 18 seats will presumably go to the BJP and Sena’s other alliance partners.The alliance will be opposed by a Congress-Nationalist Congress Party tie-up. NCP chief Sharad Pawar has been in the news after the Enforcement Directorate filed a money laundering case against him and members of his family, in what several political quarters have called an example of ‘vendetta politics’.(With PTI inputs)