BJP-led alliance will have mayor in Mumbai civic body: Eknath Shinde

Key Highlights

• However, he clarified that in civic bodies where the alliance did not contest together, the party with a higher number of councillors would take a call on the mayoral post at the local level.
• Referring to the ongoing political chatter around the stay of newly elected councillors in a hotel, the Deputy Chief Minister said that his party’s Mumbai councillors had been accommodated together only to help them get acquainted with one another and undergo basic orientation and training.
• He maintained that the move should not be viewed with suspicion or given any political colour.
• Earlier in the day, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut alleged that several councillors from the Shinde group were likely to defect, and that the hotel stay was aimed at preventing them from leaving the party.
• Responding to the claim, Shinde rejected the allegation outright.