Congress-NCP close to allying with Shiv Sena to form govt in Maharashtra

An agenda for governance, not an election manifesto, in which contentious issues like the Uniform Civil Code and Ram Mandir will be kept aside, will be the working document on the basis of which the Congress, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Shiv Sena will come together to stake claim to form a government in Maharashtra in the near future, top source in the grouping said.

All the three parties concede that significant sacrifices have been made by all in the process of coming together. 

The Sena has not just lost a Cabinet berth in the Union government and the National