Today, a crucial meeting of the state BJP core committee will be held here where the party is expected to decide its strategy for the mayoral poll.
Underworld don Arun Gawli’s daughter Geeta, who won the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections from Byculla seat, has extended her support to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), taking the toll of corporators to 83 in 227-member House.
Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena has managed to make inroads in city's two Muslim pockets with the winning candidates calling the saffron party as their true well wisher.
According to reports, Shiv Sena has approached the Congress for an alliance to rule BMC but the later evinced no interest.
The run up to the elections for Maharashtra’s civic bodies saw the political spectrum abuzz with statements projecting the polls as a referendum on the Centre’s move to demonetize high-value currency notes.
The Bharatiya Janata Party and Shiv Sena on Thursday finished neck-to-neck and were engaged in a tussle on Thursday to control India's richest and biggest civic body, the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation.
In the end BJP's Atul Shah had the distinction of getting elected through a lottery against Shiv Sena rival Surendra Bagalkar.
Maharashtra Congress chief Ashok Chavan on Thursday attributed BJP's success in the civic bodies elections to its malpractice rather than merit.
When Uddhav Thackeray was appointed as the working president of Shiv Sena in January 2003, he largely came across as another reluctant politician who buckled under the pressure of family legacy to join politics. His
Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray today exuded confidence that the party will retain the coveted Mayor's post.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today said BJP's huge victory in BMC and other civic bodies was achieved on the agenda of transparency.
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