Polls For Mumbai Civic Body (BMC) On January 15, Results Next Day

Voting for Mumbai municipal body BMC will be held on January 15, results will be declared on January 16.

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Maharashtra civic body elections, pending since 2022, will finally be held on January 15. Elections will be held for 29 municipal corporations, 32 district councils and 336 panchayat committees. Counting of votes will take place the next day.

Here are the top 10 points from this big story:

  1. Politically, elections for the Brihanmumbai Corporation and other major cities like Pune and Thane are considered the most important, as they are expected to determine the political direction of the state.
  2. The elections are expected to reflect the mood of the people and also the popularity of the ruling coalition.

  3. Competition for the BMC – previously controlled by the undivided Shiv Sena – is intense. The BMC is not only the largest in the country but also the richest in Asia, with a budget larger than the annual budget of many smaller states.
  4. However, this time BJP’s Eknath Shinde is hoping to overtake the Shiv Sena faction of BJP and grab the reins of BMC. When asked who would take up the post of mayor, Shinde cautiously replied that the mayor would be from Mahayuti.
  5. The opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi is also in war mode for the elections, which is especially critical of Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena UBT and Congress. Given his performance in the last assembly elections, the elections may determine his political future.
  6. Civic elections have also become the basis on which Thackeray brothers Uddhav and Raj Thackeray have come together after decades. However, their contesting the elections together has not been announced yet.
  7. Municipal corporation elections in major cities like Mumbai, Pune and Thane are pending from 2022, when his term ends. The delay is due to legal and administrative disputes related to OBC reservation and ward delimitation.
  8. The Supreme Court has set a deadline of January 31 to complete all pending elections.

  9. Voting was held on December 2 for 264 municipal councils and nagar panchayats of the state. The results of these elections will be declared on December 21.
  10. Elections in about 24 municipal councils and nagar panchayats were also postponed, with the revised polling date set for December 20. These results will also be declared on December 21.