Elections to several municipal corporations and other local bodies including the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) of Mumbai are pending for the last three years
Maharashtra CM Fadnavis (above) was speaking to reporters here after launching irrigation and power generation projects. File Pic
The BJP-led Mahayuti alliance will contest the upcoming local body elections in the state together but there will be friendly fights where a tie-up does not materialise, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Wednesday, reported the PTI.
CM Fadnavis was speaking to reporters here after launching irrigation and power generation projects.
Elections to several municipal corporations and other local bodies including the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) of Mumbai are pending for the last three years.
However, in a key step towards conducting long-pending elections to 29 municipal corporations across Maharashtra, including the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the state government has issued a notification to finalise ward boundaries.
According to the notification, the number of corporators to be elected to the BMC has been capped at 227, with each ward in Mumbai electing one corporator. In contrast, other municipal corporations will have four corporators per ward, a number that may vary between three and five.
The ward delimitation process will proceed with the approval of the State Election Commission (SEC). For Mumbai, the BMC commissioner has been tasked with preparing the draft delimitation plan.
Meanwhile, CM Fadnavis stated that the state BJP president, working president and the election committee of the party are authorised to take decisions related to the local bodies elections.
"We have decided to contest the polls as an alliance. There will be friendly fights wherever a tie-up does not work out," he added, according to the PTI.
The Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party and Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena are the two other members of the alliance.
When asked about Prahar Janshakti Party leader Bachhu Kadu's hunger strike, Fadnavis said district guardian minister Chandrashekar Bawankule will speak to him.
Kadu is on hunger strike for four days over demands related to farmers' issues.
To a question on Prime Minister Narendra Modi inquiring about Sharad Pawar's health when he met MP and Pawar's daughter Supriya Sule during a meeting with all-party delegations which visited foreign countries to put forth India's stand after Operation Sindoor, Fadnavis said, "Humanity, sensitivity exist in politics. We are ideological adversaries, not enemies," as per the PTI.
It is a marker of a strong democracy, the chief minister said.
While politics keeps evolving, the state government is stable and the three Mahayuti allies will stay together, he added.
Speaking at a rally organised by the BJP in the city later, CM Fadnavis urged the people to support the ruling alliance in the local body elections just as they did during the last year's assembly elections, the news agency reported.
(with PTI inputs)
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