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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rebel Narayan Chaudhary was connected Friday (February 20, 2026) elected the politician of Bhiwandi-Nizampur City Municipal Corporation (BNCMC) successful Thane territory with the backing of the Congress.
Congress’s Tariq Momin was elected the lawman mayor.
The run-up to the mayoral predetermination successful the BNCMC was marked by enactment infightings and astonishment alliances, with Mr. Chaudhary and astatine slightest 8 others corporators splitting from the BJP and joining hands with the Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) nether the banner of ‘Secular Front’.
“Several BJP councillors person joined the Secular Front, leaving down the ideology of the BJP. The Secular Front unanimously decided connected Chaudhary’s sanction for the mayorship. So, Bhiwandi has got politician and lawman politician from the Congress-led alliance,” said Maharashtra Congress main Harshwardhan Sapkal.
Mr. Chaudhary said, “This is the triumph of the Secular Front, the triumph of the radical of Bhiwandi. Change the reasoning and Bhiwandi volition change.”
In the 90-member corporation, Mr. Chaudhary secured 48 votes successful the mayoral election, which was conducted done a amusement of hands, portion Vilas Patil of Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena bagged 25 votes and BJP’s Sneha Patil got 16 votes. One autarkic campaigner abstained from voting.
In the January 15 canvass to the civic body, the Congress emerged arsenic the single-largest enactment with 30 seats, followed by the BJP (22), Shiv Sena (12), NCP-SP (12), Samajwadi Party (6), Konark Vikas Aghadi (4), and Bhiwandi Vikas Aghadi (3). One Independent besides won. Meanwhile, BJP State president Ravindra Chavan warned of strict disciplinary enactment against the rebel corporators successful Bhiwandi.
