After MVA’s disappointing efficiency within the lately concluded Maharashtra meeting election, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Sanjay Raut mentioned his social gathering would possibly contest the upcoming Brihanmumbai Municipal Company (BMC) elections independently.
“Talks are on between Uddhav Thackeray and different social gathering leaders (about whether or not to go solo) for the BMC polls. Staff need the social gathering to contest the polls solo,” PTI quoted Raut as saying.
Exuding confidence in his social gathering’s means to attain nicely within the polls, Raut mentioned that Shiv Sena (UBT)’s affect in Mumbai is undisputed.
“If we had extra seats to contest in Mumbai (through the meeting polls), we might have received them,” Raut mentioned, claiming that it was essential to win Mumbai or else the town could be separated from Maharashtra.
The Maharashtra chief additional famous that even earlier than the Shiv Sena break up, when the social gathering was in alliance with the BJP, it contested the BMC and different civic physique polls independently.
Nevertheless, the Shiv Sena (UBT) chief clarified that the MVA will exist within the Pune, Pimpri-Chinchwad and Nashik civic our bodies.
Raut’s comment comes after Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde confirmed that the ruling Mahayuti alliance, consisting of the BJP, Shiv Sena, and NCP, would contest the BMC elections as a united entrance.
BMC elections
The subsequent BMC elections are anticipated to be held quickly because the time period of the beforehand elected representatives within the Brihanmumbai Municipal Company led to March 2022.
Since then, the BMC has been working with out elected representatives for almost three years, together with the COVID-19 interval.
Notably, the Shiv Sena, earlier than its break up, had managed the BMC, India’s richest municipal company, for 25 consecutive years from 1997 to 2022.
