The Congress emerged as the single-largest party in the Kolhapur Municipal Corporation as votes were counted on Friday for elections to the 81-member civic body held a day earlier. However, the ruling Mahayuti alliance of the BJP, Shiv Sena, and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) together crossed the majority mark, securing a combined 45 seats. The Congress won 34 seats, while the BJP secured 26, followed by the Shiv Sena with 15 and the NCP with four. Shiv Sena (UBT) won one seat, with another going to others.
The BJP is also poised to secure the mayor’s post in Mumbai’s Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), where, along with its ally Shiv Sena, it is on track to record its highest-ever tally. For 27 years, the BMC was controlled by the undivided Shiv Sena, until the party split in 2022 into factions led by Eknath Shinde and Uddhav Thackeray, whose father Bal Thackeray founded the party in 1966.The BMC is the richest municipal corporation in India and among the wealthiest in Asia, with an annual budget of Rs 74,400 crore for 2026–27(With PTI inputs)
