Overview
- BJP holds 89 seats and Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena has 29, giving the Mahayuti a slim 118-seat edge in the 227-member BMC while the BJP falls short on its own.
- Eknath Shinde met his 29 corporators at Taj Land’s End, describing their three-day hotel stay as orientation and registration work, a claim the opposition disputes with ‘jail’ allegations.
- Shinde signaled leverage on power-sharing, with his camp pushing for the first 2.5 years of a rotational mayoralty and key committee posts, including the standing committee chair.
- Devendra Fadnavis dismissed poaching talk and said alliance leaders would decide the mayor, projecting a consensus Mahayuti outcome despite public sparring.
- The Urban Development Department has yet to conduct the draw to fix the mayoral reservation category, delaying candidate announcements and the formal election.