After weeks of intense negotiations over seat-sharing, the Mahayuti alliance appears to have broken down ahead of the Jalna Municipal Corporation (JMC) elections in Maharashtra, with partners deciding to contest the January 15 polls independently.

The collapse became evident on Tuesday, the final day for filing nomination forms, with alliance partners -- the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Shiv Sena, and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) -- deciding to contest the polls independently.