Overview
- After a one-and-a-half-hour closed-door meeting, leaders agreed the alliance will contest municipal elections together, including in Mumbai and Thane.
- Local-level negotiations to finalise ward-wise seat-sharing, coordination and campaign roles are slated to start within two to three days.
- An organisational rule was discussed to bar BJP and Shiv Sena office-bearers and workers from switching between the two parties to curb poaching and friction.
- Eknath Shinde told Shiv Sena MLAs to maintain coalition discipline, avoid public criticism of partners and prepare to fight corporation and ZP polls within Mahayuti.
- Shinde’s camp plans to seek about 125 BMC seats and has signalled it could go solo if sidelined, while the BJP is pushing to contest at least 150 in the 227-member body.