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The BJP and its Mahayuti allies person won 68 seats unopposed successful the Maharashtra civic polls, voting for which volition beryllium held connected January 15.
Across the State, arsenic galore arsenic 68 candidates from the BJP and the Mahayuti person been elected unopposed, reflecting the party's increasing spot successful municipality section bodies, BJP person Keshav Upadhye said connected Friday (January 2, 2026).
This includes 44 of the BJP, with the highest fig being from Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation successful Thane district, followed by Pune, Pimpri Chinchwad, Panvel, Bhiwandi, Dhule, Jalgaon and Ahilyanagar.
BJP candidates Manjusha Nagpure and Shrikant Jagtap from Pune's ward fig 35 were elected unopposed aft their opponents withdrew their information forms. The 2 were elected from the ward betwixt 2017 to 2022.
Hailing the wins, Union curate and elder BJP person Murlidhar Mohol said the adjacent Mayor of Pune volition beryllium from his party.
"We person a people of 125 seats retired of which we person already won two, truthful 123 are remaining. Two seats were won unopposed. This is simply a certificate for retired party's bully governance," Mr. Mohol claimed.
The Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena has seen 22 of its candidates getting elected unopposed, portion the fig is 2 for Ajit Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party.
BJP leaders attributed the inclination to the popularity of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and what they described arsenic the palmy electoral strategy of State portion president Ravindra Chavan.
These person helped the BJP look arsenic a ascendant unit not lone successful municipal councils but besides successful large municipal corporations, the leaders added.
