Overview
- Eknath Shinde’s faction filed a 40-member star campaigner list with the State Election Commission, formalizing its campaign lineup.
- The roster includes Shinde, his MP son Shrikant, senior leaders Ramdas Kadam, Gajanan Kirtikar and Anandrao Adsul, several ministers and MPs, and actor Govinda Ahuja.
- Uday Samant said the BJP–Shiv Sena alliance has agreed on over 150 BMC seats, with about 77 still to be decided.
- Voting will be held on January 15 across 29 municipal corporations for 2,869 seats with roughly 3.48 crore eligible voters, and counting is set for January 16.
- The polls are the first major municipal test since the 2022 Shiv Sena split, setting up a direct fight with Uddhav Thackeray’s loyalists in key bodies including the BMC.