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The ruling Mahayuti is set to secure the mayor’s post in the 81-member Nanded Waghala Municipal Corporation, where vote counting has been underway since 10 am on Friday.The BJP has won 40 civic wards and is leading in five more, while its ally, the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, has secured one seat and is ahead in six others.
Ajit Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party has won seven seats, while the Congress and its allies have secured six wards and are leading in four others. Four candidates of the Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM have also emerged victorious.Polling for the Nanded Waghala Municipal Corporation, along with elections to 28 other civic bodies across Maharashtra, was held on Thursday.The BJP is also poised to secure the mayor’s post in Mumbai’s Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), where, along with the 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 former Maharashtra chief minister 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.