The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is seeking to tighten its grip over Mumbai’s western suburbs. In the BJP-Shiv Sena (Shinde) alliance, all municipal wards in Vile Parle and Vandre West have gone to the BJP, leaving the Shinde Sena without a single seat in these two segments. In the Charkop Assembly segment, represented by BJP MLA Yogesh Sagar, all six wards have gone to the BJP quota. Upset with this, a section of local Shinde Sena office-bearers quit the party and have joined the Congress.  Similarly, in Borivli, the BJP has been allotted six of seven municipal wards, with one going to the Shinde camp.

The Shinde Sena drawing a blank in Vile Parle has come as a surprise to many political observers. Vile Parle was once considered a bastion of the undivided Shiv Sena.