The Eknath Shinde-led state cabinet on Wednesday reversed the previous government’s decision of increasing Mumbai’s electoral wards to 236. In the forthcoming election, the city will elect 227 representatives, which was the total seats in 2017 polls.

The decision came after the demands by the Congress and the BJP, which alleged that the delimitation was carried out to benefit the Shiv Sena. Similarly, the lower and upper limits of the number of representatives have been decided for other urban and rural local bodies, but the methodology would be based on the population.  The rollback is expected to boost the BJP’s mission of dethroning the Uddhav Thackeray Sena from the BMC.