The 8 BMC corporators who won Assembly polls may chose to retain both seats as leaders like Chhagan Bhujbal, Narayan Rane have done in the past
The 8 BMC corporators who won Assembly polls may chose to retain both seats as leaders like Chhagan Bhujbal, Narayan Rane have done in the past
The eight BMC corporators who won the Assembly polls may retain their seats in the civic body as others have
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Double delight: Ravindra Waikar is among the winning MLAs who are also corporators. pic/Uday Devrukhkar |
done in the past. "Chhagan Bhujbal was a corporator when he contested and won the Assembly polls in 1984, and Narayan Rane was the chairman of the BEST committee when he was elected an MLA in 1989.
Ravindra Waikar, and Rajhans Singh are now in the same position as Rane and Bhujbal were then. All these leaders retained their seats in the BMC even after they became members of the legislature," said a BMC source.
Waikar (Shiv Sena), who won the polls from Jogeshwari (E) with a margin of 64,231 votes holds the chairmanship of the BMC Standing Committee, while Rajhans Singh, who won from Dindoshi with a margin of 44,152 votes, is the group leader of the Congress in the BMC.
Corporators Yogesh Sagar (BJP) and Mangesh Sangle (MNS) have also won from the Charkop and Vikhroli Assembly constituencies.u00a0
Ravindra Waikar says it is his party that will decide his course of action. "I will leave it for the party to decide. I can continue with the chairmanship if the party doesn't object. There is no rule in the BMC that says one can't continue with two posts simultaneously. Moreover, this has been done in past," Waikar said.u00a0
Two timers
The Corporators who have become MLAS...> Ramesh Thakur [Congress, Kandivli (E)]
> Mangesh Sangle [MNS, Vikhroli]
> Amin Patel [Cong, Mumba Devi]
> Yogesh Sagar [BJP, Charkop]
> Rajhans Singh [Cong, Dindoshi]
> Ravindra Waikar [Shiv Sena, Jogeshwari (E)]
> Aslam Shaikh [Cong, Malad (W)]
> Prakash Bala Sawant [Sena, Bandra (E)]
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Some independents got less than 100 votes. Ghatkopar (W) saw five such cases u2014 Avinash Joshi (60), Deepak Khandare (67), Vivek Phadtre (80), Abdul Shaikh (95) and Santosh Ram Singh (75). Mohammed Rafique in Bandra (E) got 88 votes.
Maha Assembly at a glance
Congress-NCP: 144
Shiv Sena-BJP: 91
MNS: 13
Third Front: 14
Others: 26 [This includes SP, CPI (M), PWPI, other small parties and independents]
