Mumbai Mayor

Vishwanath Mahadeshwar's election as the 76th mayor of Mumbai comes as the culmination of a fierce battle between Shiv Sena and BJP for the political reins of the city

Conceding BMC to Shiv Sena seen as Devendra Fadnavis's long-term strategy to consolidate BJP's gains across Maharashtra, restrict Shiv Sena to Mumbai

Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis says BJP's municipal corporators will vote for the Shiv Sena nominees in the mayoral and deputy mayoral elections

Maharashtra's revenue minister Chandrakant Patil says a formula which is acceptable to both BJP and Shiv Sena will be worked out ahead of the Mumbai mayoral poll

As the campaign goes into the final leg in Uttar Pradesh, both sides continue to make their sales pitch on development laced with partisan appeals to social identity

Maharashtra NCP president Sunil Tatkare says NCP was clear right from the start of the campaign for the civic polls that it would have an alliance with Shiv Sena or BJP

The BJP wants an honourable compromise with Shiv Sena under which the latter drops its critical posturing on every issue and tones down its anti-Modi rhetoric

After BMC election results threw up a hung mandate, Congress indicated it may support Shiv Sena's mayoral candidate provided it pulls out of Maharashtra govt before 9 March

With no signs of a thaw between the principal actorsShiv Sena that won 84 BMC seats and BJP that followed with 82choosing Mumbai's mayor has become a tough task

Shiv Sena leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut also denies that the party has approached Congress for support