Ritu Tawde, a BJP corporator from Ghatkopar East, will formally assume office as Mumbai’s mayor on Tuesday after being elected unopposed in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, marking a rare political shift in India’s richest civic body and ending Shiv Sena’s quarter-century hold on the post. A two-time corporator, Tawde becomes the city’s eighth woman mayor…
Maharashtra District Parishad Election Results Live Updates: 12 Zilla Parishads (Zilla Parishad Elections 2026) and 125 Panchayat Samiti Elections of Maharashtra (Maharashtra Panchayat Samiti Election 2026) The results are to be announced today. After the elections of 29 municipal corporations in the state, Zilla Parishad elections were held, whose candidates will be decided today. On…
Mumbai, Jan 25 (PTI) The MNS should have informed the Shiv Sena (UBT) about its decision to join hands with Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena in the Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation, a leader from the Uddhav Thackeray-led party said on Sunday. Yuva Sena secretary Varun Sardesai’s remark comes days after MNS chief Raj Thackeray described the…
The victory speech by Sahar Sheikh, AIMIM’s newly-elected 22-year-old corporator in Thane Municipal Corporation, has gone viral after she vowed to paint her locality “green”, with rivals claiming that her reference to the color had religious overtones. “In the next five years, every candidate in Mumbra will be from AIMIM. Mumbra must be completely painted…
Former Mayor Kishori Pednekar, who won from Ward number 199 in the Mumbai municipal corporation election, has been elected the leader of Shiv Sena UBT corporators on Wednesday. She had defeated Rupal Kusale of the Shiv Sena (Shinde faction). The Shiv Sena corporators’ leaders were chosen days after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its…
Amid ongoing power-tussle and suspense within Bharatiya Janata party (BJP)-led Mahayuti for the mayoral post in BrhihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the richest civic body in the country, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut has made a claim that the phones of newly-elected corporators from both the BJP and Shiv Sena are being tapped. Raut also…
AIMIM national spokesperson Waris Pathan on Monday (January 19, 2026) targeted Shiv Sena Shinde faction regarding Mumbai politics. At the same time, he has also given a big statement on the question of councilors’ fear of disbandment after the election results of 29 Municipal Corporations of Maharashtra including Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) are declared. He…
Maharashtra Deputy CM Eknath Shinde has rejected the news of new political equation after the announcement of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) election results. He said on Monday (January 19) that Mumbai will have a Mahayuti mayor. Shinde told the media that in the municipal bodies where Shiv Sena and BJP had jointly contested the elections,…
No one has majority for the post of Mayor in Malegaon. Islam Party (The Indian Secular Largest Assembly of Maharashtra) has sought support from AIMIM for the post of Mayor. In Malegaon, Islam Party has sought support from AIMIM and talks are going on between the two parties. After the Malegaon Municipal Corporation elections, the…
After the elections of 29 metropolitan municipalities in Maharashtra, politics is taking a new turn with the results of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. Even though no one party has clearly got the power of the Municipal Corporation on the basis of numbers, the key to reach the post of Mayor is currently in the hands of…
