TIL Desk/National/Mumbai/ All eyes are on the outcome of the fiercely-fought BMC elections as counting for polls to 10 municipal corporations and 25 zilla parishads across Maharashtra begins at 10 am this morning.
About 56 per cent voters had exercised franchise across 10 municipal corporations in Maharashtra, including for the all-important Mumbai civic body BMC which recorded a 55
per cent turn-out.Sena leads in 12 seats in Mumbai as against seven for the BJP and 1 for the Congress of the 227 seats in the fiercely-fought Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation elections.
The BMC, Asia’s richest civic body, has been controlled by the Shiv Sena for the last 20 years and the party says it is coming back again. The two parties contested separately this time after the Shiv Sena called off the partnership ahead of the civic polls. 55 percent voted in the BMC elections on Tuesday, the highest voter turnout in 25 years.
Leads so far:
Thane: BJP 1, Sena: 3
Mumbai: BJP 5, Sena 9, Cong 1
Nagpur BJP 3
Pune BJP 12 NCP 6
Nashik BJP 4 Sena 2 NCP 2
