<span style="color: #222222;">Senior BJP leader and Maharashtra Revenue Minister Chandrakant Patil said that BJP and its ally Shiv Sena will share equal number of seats in the upcoming Assembly elections. <br />'' <br />'' Talking to reporters at Mumbai on Sunday, Patil said both the parties will share 135 seats each in 288 member House and leave 18 seats for other allies. <br />'' <br />'' Patil said current Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis will be the natural choice of the people and both the parties for the top most again. <br />'' <br />'' In the current assembly, BJP and Shiv Sena have 122 and 63 MLAs respectively. <br />'' <br />''<br />''Moreover, in the recently concluded polls the saffron parties together won 41 of the 48 seats.  While the BJP secured 23 of the 25 seats it contested, the Sena managed victory in 18 of the 23 seats it fought.</span><br />