Speculations around who will be the next BMC Mayor have already ignited after the Mahayuti coalition managed to secure only a narrow victory in the recently concluded Mumbai civic body polls.  Speaking to news agency PTI, a source said that Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister (CM) Eknath Shinde is clear that his party, the Shiv Sena, will honour the mandate for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Mahayuti in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).

The Sena chief also remarked that the shifting of the 29 corporators-elect of his party to a five-star hotel in Mumbai was being unnecessarily hyped.