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BMC polls: Sena emerges single largest winner, but BJP all set to rule

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Source: Local Press

BJP’s huge victory is on the agenda of transparency, says Fadnavis; Mumbai Cong chief Sanjay Nirupam offers to resign

Shiv Sena finished on top of a hung Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Thursday but the BJP said it could take control of India’s richest civic body with the backing of independents.

Shiv Sena activists celebrated earlier in the day as it appeared it was set to take control of the BMC but it finished with just 84 of the 227 seats. The BJP came close with 81 seats.

Any party or combine will need 114 corporators for a simple majority.

Across Maharashtra, however, the Bharatiya Janata Party made major gains in elections held for municpal bodies. The Shiv Sena victory came in Thane.

Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis said this huge victory for BJP is on the agenda of transparency.

“Last time we won 31 seats, and this time we have crossed 80-mark in BMC. I believe it’s a big victory and the people of Maharashtra have shown faith in us,” he said.

He thanked people for Maharashtra for supporting the party.

Ironically, Maharashtra minister Pankaja Munde offered to quit the government in Maharashtra after BJP’s poor performance in the local body polls in her constituency in Beed district.

“I take responsibility for my defeat in local body polls in Beed, have sent my resignation,” She said.

Reacting to her resignations, Fadnavis said “In election it happens that we loose and win.”

Mumbai Municipal Corporation Election Conducted on 21 February.

The highest ever voter turnout recorded to far. 55.28 per cent of the total electorate cast their vote even after there were reports of several missing out because they could not find their named in the voters’ list.

A total of 91.8 lakh registered voters for 2275 candidates in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections 2017.

Following his resignation from chairmanship of the Mumbai Regional Congress Committee, party leader Sanjay Nirupam slammed senior party leaders for indulging in ‘anti-party’ campaigns.

“It is because of some senior party leaders who commented on working of the party and me during the campaign, those who think that they are bigger than the party itself, their internal feuds and anti-party campaigns that such a result has come,” said Nirupam.

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