New alliances in BMC polls

With barely two weeks left for the polling day for the elections to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), alliances have been furiously stitched across the political firmament in the past few days.

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The voter may be forgiven for being lost in the maze that has come to pass by way of these alliances between the parties. The fundamental question—which party should be considered the ruling party and which the opposition in India’s richest municipal corporation—is not clear. The BJP and the Shiv Sena, which jointly held power after the last election in 2017, have been on either side of the line since 2019, when Uddhav Thackeray broke away.