BJP, Shiv Sena to lobby separately for key posts; Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar (NCP-SP) have not yet registered their elected representatives for BMC, amid speculation that both parties are set to support the Shiv Sena in the general body
BJP’s and Shinde Sena’s newly elected corporators head to Konkan Bhavan, Belapur, for group registration after their party registration at BMC HQ on Monday. PIC/ASHISH RAJE
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Shiv Sena registered their respective corporators separately on Monday for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) general body. Each party now has separate group leaders in the BMC. While the Shiv Sena group leader is two-time Matunga corporator Amey Ghole, the BJP group leader is Ganesh Khankar, the corporator from Dahisar. Khankar is set to become group leader in the House (general body), as BJP is the single largest party, leading the entire 227-member body of elected representatives in the BMC.
According to information from the office of the municipal secretary, the Congress party has already nominated Ashraf Azmi as its group leader, while the MNS has nominated Yashwant Killedar, corporator from ward 192 in Dadar, and AIMIM (All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen) has nominated Vijay Ubale from ward no. 140 as its group leader. Ubale is the only corporator among AIMIM’s eight elected representatives who is not from the Muslim community.
Notably, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar (NCP-SP) have not yet registered their elected representatives for BMC, amid speculation that both parties are set to support the Shiv Sena in the general body.
The election for the BMC mayor will be held on February 11. The process of filing nominations for the post will begin on February 6. With BJP’s 89 corporators and Shiv Sena’s 29 corporators elected to BMC on January 16, the Mahayuti alliance is in a position to nominate a member — who must be a female corporator who contested from a general category seat — for the position. The Shiv Sena (UBT) has 65 corporators, while the MNS has six, NCP has three, NCP-SP has one, and Samajwadi Party has one.
What separate registrations mean?
A joint registration by the top parties in the Mahayuti alliance means both parties would have a single whip in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, and would bargain for joint sharing of chairmanship of key posts for various statutory committees and leader of the House. However, according to party leaders, while sharing of the posts of chairmanship for key committees is likely, both parties will now lobby separately for the posts.
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