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BJP corporator Ritu Tawde was elected Mayor of Mumbai connected Wednesday (February 11, 2026), portion Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Ghadi became the Deputy Mayor.
Both Ms. Tawde and Mr. Ghadi were elected unopposed successful a peculiar gathering of the wide assemblage of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
After the predetermination process was completed astatine the BMC headquarters, Ms. Tawde took complaint arsenic the 78th politician of Mumbai amid sloganeering from some the ruling and Opposition enactment corporators.
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Deputy CM Eknath Shinde, who heads the Shiv Sena, were contiguous during the ceremony. They congratulated the recently elected politician and lawman mayor.
Ms. Tawade is simply a corporator from Ward 132, portion Mr. Ghadi was elected from Ward 5 successful the January 15 civic elections.
In the lack of an elected wide body, BMC Commissioner Bhushan Gagrani had been overseeing the day-to-day affairs of the civic corp since March 2022.
With Ms. Tawde’s elevation, the BJP has secured the Mayor’s station successful the country’s richest civic assemblage aft a spread of 44 years. She is the 2nd Mayor from the BJP successful Mumbai.
Earlier, Mr. Gagrani conducted the predetermination process successful the BMC’s historical Committee Hall successful his capableness arsenic the State-appointed presiding officer.
Ahead of the proceedings, corporators of the BJP and Shiv Sena gathered astatine Hutatma Chowk to wage floral tributes earlier proceeding to the BMC headquarters.
In the polls to the 227-member BMC past month, the BJP emerged arsenic the single-largest enactment with 89 seats, portion Shiv Sena won 29 seats. The ruling alliance, with a combined spot of 118 corporators, was past the halfway people of 114 and was good placed to unafraid the mayor’s post.
The Shiv Sena (UBT), which ruled the civic assemblage for 25 years since 1997, won 65 seats, portion its allies, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) and the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar), won six and 1 seat, respectively.
