Key Highlights
- While this suggests a comfortable position, the breakdown of seats tells a more complicated story.
- As counting began to conclude, the BJP had emerged as the single largest party, winning or leading in 88 wards.
- However, there is virtually no scenario, besides the highly unlikely options such as a tie-up with Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena, in which the BJP can form the civic government on its own. That makes Shinde's Shiv Sena, which was ahead in 29 wards, indispensable to the BJP's plans for controlling the BMC, effectively giving it decisive leverage in the post-results power equation.
- And possibly the discussions on the Mayoral position.
- Also Read: BMC Election Results LIVE'Won't compromise ideology': ShindeAfter the win, Shinde made sure to assert that the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance is "not temporary".
