Overview
- The Maharashtra government formally notified the BMC results, listing all 227 corporators and confirming the BJP at 89 seats and the Shinde-led Shiv Sena at 29 for a 118-seat alliance majority.
- After four days at Taj Lands End, 29 Shinde Sena corporators checked out once the notification issued, ending the hotel stay that included party custody of original winning documents to deter defections.
- Parties moved to register their municipal groups at Konkan Bhavan, with Congress filing for its 24 corporators and the Shinde Sena and BJP preparing their own registrations to activate party whips.
- Eknath Shinde met BJP leaders in Delhi as bargaining intensified over the mayor’s post and key committees, with the BJP pushing to retain the mayoralty and standing committee and the Sena seeking a share, including a two-and-a-half-year split.
- The phone-tapping charge by Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut was denied by the BJP, as alliance strains surfaced over seat-sharing performance and reports of poaching and missing corporators in other civic bodies added to the tension.