US EditionBJP Names Ritu Tawde as Mahayuti Candidate for Mumbai Mayor, Shiv Sena's Sanjay Ghadi Is Named as Her Deputy
The BJP-Shiv Sena Mahayuti coalition holds 118 seats in the 227-member BMC, securing a majority to appoint Ritu Tawde as mayor and Sanjay Ghadi as deputy mayor.
- On Saturday, the Bharatiya Janata Party nominated corporator Ritu Tawade as Mumbai Mayor, and Shiv Sena named Sanjay Ghadi deputy, with Mahayuti holding majority in the 227-member BMC.
- The BJP-Shiv Sena tally shows the coalition controls 118 seats, four above the 114 majority mark, and adding the Nationalist Congress Party's three seats would raise the Mahayuti's total to 121.
- A senior BJP leader, Tawde, a three-time corporator elected from Ward 132, previously chaired the BMC education committee and joined BJP after Congress in 2012.
- The scheduled February 11 vote at the BMC headquarters will decide control of the 227-member BMC, with Ritu Tawde's nomination set to end BJP's nearly 40-year mayoral drought in India's richest civic board.
- Shiv Sena plans to split the deputy mayor's term to give four corporators a chance, with Ghadi serving 15 months, and two independents may influence coalition calculations.
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BJP names Ritu Tawde as Mahayuti candidate for Mumbai Mayor, Shiv Sena's Sanjay Ghadi is named as her Deputy
The Mahayuti alliance has announced BJP leader Ritu Tawde as Mumbai's next mayor, ending days of speculation. Shiv Sena's Sanjay Shankar Ghadi will be the deputy mayor after the alliance secured a majority in the BMC civic elections.
For the first time, Ritu Tawde of the BJP has been elected as the Mayor of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. She is a senior BMC corporator and began her political career in 2012 from Ward No. 127. In 2017, she was elected from Ward No. 121 in Ghatkopar. This will be the first time a woman from the BJP will hold the post of Mayor of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. Ritu Tawde's appointment is expected to usher in a new direction in …
Meet Ritu Tawde: BJP leader poised to take charge as BMC mayor
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) corporate Ritu Tawde is set to become the next mayor of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), which is India's richest civic board, after she was named as Mahayuti's mayoral candidate in Mumbai on Saturday. In addition, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Shankar Ghadi has been named Mahayuti's deputy mayor candidate. The mayoral and the deputy mayoral elections will take place at the BMC headquarters in Mumbai on Febru…
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