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The ruling Mahayuti alliance will contest the upcoming municipal elections across the state, including Mumbai and Thane, together.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis with Deputy Chief Ministers Eknath Shinde. (PTI file photo)
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde held a one-and-a-half-hour closed-door meeting on Monday, where it was decided that the ruling Mahayuti alliance will contest the upcoming municipal elections across the state, including Mumbai and Thane, together.
State BJP president Chandrashekhar Bawankule and senior Shiv Sena leader Ravindra Chavan were also present in the meeting.
Shiv Sena’s official release reported that there was positive discussion between leaders of both parties on fighting the civic polls unitedly as Mahayuti.
In the next two to three days, local-level discussions will begin to finalise seat-sharing and other details. It has also been agreed that office-bearers and workers from the BJP and Shiv Sena will not be allowed to switch to each other’s parties.
The Maharashtra local body elections is set to be contested between two major alliances, the ruling Mahayuti and the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA).
The Mahayuti (Ruling Coalition) alliance is in power at the state level and comprises of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde faction), and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) (Ajit Pawar faction).
The main opposition alliance (Maha Vikas Aghadi) comprises the Indian National Congress (INC), Shiv Sena (UBT) (Uddhav Thackeray faction), Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) (Sharad Pawar faction, or NCP-SP), and other contesting parties.
(With agency inputs)
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