Mumbai: The breakdown of the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance in Maharashtra may also have an impact on the election for Mumbai mayor on November 22. In the elections of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation in 2017, 84 Shiv Sena councilors were elected in the 227-member municipal corporation, while 82 councilors of the ally BJP won. BJP then supported the Shiv Sena and Vishwanath Mahadeshwar was elected mayor.

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Mahadeshwar's two-and-a-half-year term ended in September this year, but in view of the assembly elections held on October 21, his term was extended to November. After the results of the assembly elections on October 24, there was a rift between both BJP and Shiv Sena parties where Shiv Sena was adamant on demanding equal partnership for the post of CM.

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At present, the Shiv Sena has 94 councilors, including six from the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS). BJP has 83, 28 of Congress, eight of NCP, six of Samajwadi Party (SP), two of AIMIM and one of MNS councilors. On the question of the possibility of the BJP fielding candidates for the post of Mayor, Mangal Prabhat Lodha, president of the party's Mumbai unit, said that it has not decided on it yet.

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