The election in which Mumbai’s civic corporators vote for sending two representatives to the upper house of the state legislature has been made interesting with a low-profile former Congress corporator filing nomination as an independent, making it a three-way fight for the two seats for which the first-and second-largest parties, the Shiv Sena and the BJP, respectively, have fielded their candidates.

The Sena has nominated former MLA Sunil Shinde, who had to vacate his Worli Assembly seat for accommodating Aaditya Thackeray in the 2019 elections. Since Shinde was promised proper rehabilitation, he has been chosen over many others. The BJP has a north Indian bigshot, Rajhans Singh, a former Congress MLA, in the race. Singh joined the saffron party a couple of years ago and got the ticket superseding another aspirant and former Congress colleague, Kripashankar Singh, who joined the BJP recently.