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BMC race: How categories and caste line up for Mumbai's mayoral lottery today

January 22, 2026 11:49 am

A lottery today will decide which caste category Mumbai’s next civic chief will be drawn from. Here’s how each party’s numbers stack up across reservation categories.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, with his family shows their inked finger after casting vote for Municipal Corporation Elections, in Nagpur on Thursday. (ANI Photo)

'Is it getting erased?': Fadnavis asks as he scratches his finger after voting, dismisses Raj Thackeray's marker pen claims

January 15, 2026 2:18 pm

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said the Opposition is crying foul play to justify the expected loss in the Maharashtra corporation polls.

Citizens check for their names in the voter list before casting their votes for BMC election, at Dharavi Transit Camp Municipal school, in Mumbai on 15 January.

Mumbai BMC Elections 2026: Exit polls predict BJP alliance victory in BMC elections

January 17, 2026 10:14 am

Mumbai BMC Elections Exit Poll Results 2026: Follow Maharashtra municipal election 2026 voting, Mumbai BMC Elections voting trends, and the latest developments from the Brihanmumbai civic polls.

BMC polls: Kishori Pednekar, Neil Somaiya and Samadhan Sarvankar among key candidates with massive spike in assets

January 12, 2026 2:33 pm

Covering the entire political spectrum, from the Shinde-led Shiv Sena to the UBT faction, as well as the BJP and the Congress, the affidavits reveal asset increases of up to 400 per cent since the last elections.

following the vertical split in the Sena – three out of the seven former sitting corporators shifted to the Eknath Shinde-led faction of the party

G South Ward: 2 factions of Shiv Sena are set to lock horns in this bastion of the erstwhile undivided party

December 25, 2025 4:41 pm

G South Ward primarily houses traditional Marathi voters hailing from middle-class and lower middle-class families.

The data also shows that Ward No. 33 in Malad’s Madh, adjoining the Malvani area, has recorded the second-highest rise in voter numbers at 54.1 per cent.

BMC polls: Draft electoral roll shows over 50 per cent voter growth in 4 wards in Malad and Kurla

December 06, 2025 3:29 pm

Large increases in select Malad and Kurla wards draw scrutiny from political representatives, even as redevelopment-linked migration reduces voters in several suburban areas.

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Cong should contest Mumbai civic elections alone: Ashok Jagtap

December 21, 2020 1:08 am

Former Maharashtra minister Naseem Khan, who has been newly named as the campaign committee head for the Mumbai polls, also echoed Jagtap’s opinion.

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Congress to relaunch primaries for Mumbai civic polls

May 22, 2016 5:36 am

The Congress hasn’t won a Mumbai municipality election in two decades.

Kirit Somaiya threatens defamation suit against Udhhav Thackeray

May 21, 2016 4:17 am

The sparring between Somaiya and Shiv Sena first began last week when the MP from Mumbai Northeast alleged that a ‘saheb’ in Bandra was orchestrating scams in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).