Shiv Sena's Shraddha Jadhav elected new mayor of Mumbai
Mumbai:The Bombay Municipal Corporation (BMC) today elected Shraddha Jadhav of the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance as mayor. Jadhav got 114 of the total 225 votes. The Congress-NCP alliance could manage only 95 votes. Six MLAs abstained from the voting process. Earlier in the day, the Congress-NCP and Shiv Sena-BJP
alliances locked horns to elect the mayor and deputy mayor of Mumbai. The Samajwadi
Party had already announced it would not be a part of the voting process. Raj
Thackeray's MNS also avoided the mayoral elections with six of its corporators
not taking part in the voting process. In the 228-member house, Shiv Sena had
81 corporators, BJP 29, Akhil Bharatiya Sena 2 and 3 Independents. Congress has
77, Nationalist Congress Party 14, Samajwadi Party 7, and RPI 3.
