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Mumbai volition person a Mahayuti Mayor, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said connected Sunday (January 18, 2026) aft interacting with newly-elected Shiv Sena members of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), who person been shifted to a hotel.
Mr. Shinde’s assertion comes amid speculation implicit the determination to determination 29 corporators-designate of his enactment to a edifice aft the BJP–Shiv Sena confederation secured a constrictive bulk successful the caller civic polls.
Taking a excavation astatine Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT), Mr. Shinde said voters had chosen improvement implicit affectional issues.
"Mumbai volition person a Mahayuti Mayor. Even neighbouring cities similar Kalyan-Dombivli volition person a Mahayuti Mayor," helium told reporters.
Rejecting allegations that the corporators were being kept nether ticker astatine a luxury hotel, Mr. Shinde said the Shiv Sena was fearless.
"The caller corporators volition get a communal level to interact astatine the hotel. I wanted to conscionable them arsenic we are registering the radical of 29 corporators with the Konkan divisional commissioner," helium said.
Amid speculation successful governmental circles implicit Shiv Sena's basal vis-a-vis the adjacent Mayor of Mumbai, enactment person and Minister Uday Samant said the civic assemblage polls were contested arsenic the Mahayuti alliance.
"The Shiv Sena volition not bash what the earlier Shiv Sena [headed by Uddhav Thackeray erstwhile helium allied with the Congress aft the 2019 polls] did," helium said.
When asked astir demands from wrong the enactment for the Mayor’s post, Mr. Samant said, "Every enactment wants the main post, and Bal Thackeray's [birth] centenary twelvemonth gives that request a antithetic dimension."
In a swipe astatine the Opposition, Mr. Samant said galore corporators volition go not-reachable, and radical volition realise which enactment they belonged to.
Addressing the recently elected members, Mr. Shinde said radical had rejected the Shiv Sena (UBT) and urged them to utilise the accidental to service citizens.
He asked them to hole ward-specific improvement enactment plans and guarantee that their wards go exemplary constituencies. Mr. Shinde besides cautioned them against immoderate behaviour that could tarnish the party’s image.
"People person rejected the Shiv Sena (UBT) and those who reason development," helium said.
Mr. Shinde noted that the BJP emerged arsenic the azygous largest enactment successful the civic polls, followed by the Shiv Sena, calling the results a precursor to the upcoming Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha elections.
In the precocious concluded civic polls, the confederation of the BJP and Shinde-led Sena won a wide bulk successful the 227-member BMC, securing 89 and 29 seats, respectively. The Sena (UBT) won 65 seats, portion its state MNS emerged victorious connected six.
Mr. Shinde further appealed to newly-elected Sena members to travel up connected schemes similar 'pagdi-free Mumbai', which refers to a program to overhaul the old, problematic pagdi (tenant-ownership) system, aiming to wide stuck redevelopments.
