BJP gets highest share as members nominated to BMC’s key statutory committees
Of these four committees, the standing committee is the most important and powerful. This committee is responsible for all the major financial decisions and approves major civic infrastructure projects.
3 min readMumbaiUpdated: Feb 17, 2026 11:44 AM IST
Some of the key members who were included in these committees include BJP's Ganesh Khankar who is the party's group leader in BMC, Prabhakar Shinde (BJP), Rakhee Jadhav (BJP), Shraddha Jadhav (Sena UBT) and Ashraf Azmi (Congress).
The members to all key statutory committees in BMC were nominated on Monday–a week after mayor Ritu Tawde formally assumed her office. In total, 90 of the newly elected councillors were inducted in four major statutory committees–Standing, Improvements, Education and BEST. Some of the key members who were included in these committees include BJP’s Ganesh Khankar who is the party’s group leader in BMC, Prabhakar Shinde (BJP), Rakhee Jadhav (BJP), Shraddha Jadhav (Sena UBT) and Ashraf Azmi (Congress).
Of these four committees, the standing committee is the most important and powerful. This committee is responsible for all the major financial decisions and approves major civic infrastructure projects. This is followed by the improvements committee which oversees infrastructure development and maintenance of municipal properties. The education committee frames policies and is responsible for all the educational institutions which include over 400 municipal schools. While the BEST committee is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking.
The members of these committees are inducted on the basis of seats won by each political party. In the recently concluded civic elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had won 89 seats, followed by 65 seats won by the Shiv Sena (UBT), 29 by Shiv Sena, 24 by Congress, 8 by AIMIM, 6 by Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), 3 by Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), 2 by Samajwadi Party (SP) and 1 by NCP-SP.
Therefore, since the BJP has won the larger number of seats, it will have the highest number of members in the committee, followed by Sena UBT. The Sena and the two factions of NCP have also formed a group alliance in the BMC. As a result, these three parties will be considered as a single block comprising 33 seats in total.
Now that the members of these committees have been inducted, the chairpersons to these committees will be elected on February 20 following a voting process.
In addition to this, 36 more members have also been inducted in multiple special committees which includes the works committee, the law committee, the tree committee and women and child welfare committee among others.
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