Sena’s Yashwant Jadhav re-elected as standing chairman
Shiv Sena heavyweight and corporator from Byculla - Yashwant Jadhav was reelected as the chairperson for the standing committee, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Monday. The Standing Committee is the BMC's highest decisionmaking body.
Jadhav, the Sena incumbent retained his position as Standing committee chairman by defeating Bhartiya
Janata Party's Makrand Narvekar by seven votes.
The ruling party not only managed to grab the standing committee but also the post of Education committee chairperson. Sena corporator from Gorai, Sandhya Vipul Doshi was elected as the chairperson of the Education committee, by defeating BJP candidate Surekha Patil.
Jadhav who had been the incumbent chairperson had retained his post by defeating senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) corporator and standing committee member, Makarand Narwekar - Corporator from Colaba.
Jadhav is taking forward the legacy of other Sena leaders like Ravindra Waikar and Rahul Shewale, who are among few of the leaders who have served as standing committee chairman multiple times but getting re-elected.
Voting for the post of chairpersons for the post of standing and education committee was held at the BMC on Monday. In both, the seats Sena emerged victorious. This happed after Sena's ally in the state government Congress withdrew their candidates in the Mumbai civic body in the last minute to not disappoint their Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) ally.
However, Congress cited that they didn't have enough numbers for electing their own chairperson.
Meanwhile, for the first time in the past two decades, BJP fielded its candidates against its former saffron ally and the ruling party in BMC Shiv Sena.