Latest News, Updates & Breaking Headlines
MUMBAI: BJP’s Ritu Tawde and Eknath Shinde led Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Ghadi was announced as the Mumbai Mayor and deputy Mayor respectively on Wednesday, by the BMC administrator Bhushan Gagrani in a special meeting that was called at the civic headquarters at 12 noon. Tawde took over from the administrator which was in place in…
Sanjay Ghadi and Ritu Tawde (PTI image) NEW DELHI: BJP corporator Ritu Tawde is set to become Mumbai’s next mayor after being elected unopposed, marking the party’s return to the post after 44 years and ending the Shiv Sena’s uninterrupted 25-year hold over the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).The contest turned uncontested after the Uddhav Thackeray-led…
MUMBAI: The BJP on Saturday announced Ghatkopar corporator Ritu Tawde as its mayoral candidate for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). The announcement was made by Mumbai BJP president Ameet Satam at the civic headquarters, in the presence of senior party leaders and corporators who had gathered for the meeting.Tawde’s name had been doing the rounds,…
NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray, after the defeat in the BMC polls, launched an attack on the BJP. He said that the saffron party was mistaken if they think that Shiv Sena can be destroyed. Calling his party the symbol of the sons of the soil, he remarked that Shiv Sena is…
MUMBAI: Bombay HC on Friday rapped BMC for failing to rigorously implement measures to curb pollution in Mumbai and warned that it would stop the municipal commissioner’s salary.“We come to the conclusion that there is no genuine and sincere effort made by the municipal corporation. We may pass a similar order as proposed against the…
(L-R): Rajeshree Shirwadkar, Alka Kerkar, Yogita Koli, Harshita Narwekar MUMBAI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is poised to take the Mumbai mayor’s post for the first time since the 1980s, with the party narrowing its choice to several women corporators. The post was reserved for a woman from the open category in a draw of…
MUMBAI: The Mumbai Mayor’s post was reserved for a woman from the General category in the lottery conducted by the state Urban Development Department on Thursday. Out of 29 municipal Corporations, 1 for Scheduled Tribe (ST), 3 for Scheduled Caste (SC) (including 2 women SC), 8 for Other Backward Caste (OBC) (including 4 women), and…
MUMBAI:Amid reports that he is playing hardball with BJP to share the BMC mayor’s post by rotation, deputy CM Eknath Shinde did nothing to set the rumours to rest on Sunday. “The mayor’s post will be with Mahayuti,” Shinde said.BJP won 89 seats and Shiv Sena 29 in the BMC polls. BJP needs Shinde’s support…
MUMBAI: With the chief minister leaving for Davos to attend the World Economic Forum and the date for a lottery to decide whether the mayor’s post goes to the open category, SC/ST, OBC or women likely in the next few days, discussions for power-sharing in the BMC are expected to extend through the month.A lottery…
Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis with his deputy Eknath Shinde (File photo) NEW DELHI: Even as the BJP–Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena combine enjoys a numerical edge in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), clarity on power-sharing remains elusive, fuelling speculation that the post-election churn in Mumbai is far from over. Adding to the uncertainty, the Shinde faction…
