Overview
- AAP will contest nearly all 165 Pune Municipal Corporation seats without allies and has named Arvind Kejriwal, Bhagwant Mann, Manish Sisodia, and Sanjay Singh as star campaigners.
- AAP announces a first-time contest in Bhiwandi and Navi Mumbai and targets extensive slates in Thane, focusing on roads, healthcare, water, sanitation, and corruption.
- Talks between Ajit Pawar’s NCP and Sharad Pawar’s NCP(SP) for Pune break down over the clock symbol and seat-sharing, with NCP(SP) reopening seat talks with MVA partners.
- In Pimpri-Chinchwad, negotiations between the two NCP factions remain unsettled after NCP(SP) scaled its demand to 23 seats, which local NCP leaders say is hard to accommodate.
- BJP–Shinde Sena coordination faces strain as Shiv Sena workers in Pune protest a reported 15-seat offer from the BJP, and separate BMC seat-sharing discussions are reported to be at a deadlock.