The Maha Vikas Aghadi has taken a step forward to share power in the state-run temple trusts, corporations and boards. The alliance’s coordination committee decided to give the Shirdi Temple Trust chairmanship to the Nationalist Congress Party while the Pandharpur’s Vitthal Temple Trust will be headed by the Congress. The formula for other bodies has also been finalised, said sources.

There are at least 150 corporations, boards, commissions and authorities in the state where political appointments are made. The boards are dissolved after the government’s term gets over. The MVA hadn’t decided on the sharing formula even after spending 18 months in power creating restlessness in their rank and file which looked forward to political appointments. The sharing formula the MVA’s coordination committee decided on Tuesday to get appointments done as early as possible is seen as a positive development amid talks of this government’s instability.