Mumbai: With the lottery for the reservation of the post of mayor completed, the BJP is likely to register all its BMC corporators on Tuesday.BJP Mumbai unit president Ameet Satam said a decision on whether the BJP and Shiv Sena should register together as a group or as separate groups is still being evaluated. The BJP has 89 corporators and the Shiv Sena 29. Together, they crossed the halfway mark to elect the Mahayuti mayor, dy mayor, as well as chairman of all the statutory committees. “We are evaluating how many members will go in each committee if we register as separate groups or together. We are evaluating the pros and cons of both options,” he said.
With CM Devendra Fadnavis returning from Davos on Saturday, discussions between the two parties will pick up pace. Fadnavis said in the recent past that the BJP may not lay claim to the mayor’s post and may even give the post to its ally for 5 years. Before going to Davos, he said all decisions will be taken jointly by him, Dy CM Eknath Shinde, and senior leaders of the two parties.
