After announcing Vinod Mishra as their group leader and Prabhakar Shinde as Leader of Opposition by the BJP for managing things at BMC, the party seems to have realised their technical goof up. The BJP had not selected the group leader in the last ten months even after the former group leader Manoj Kotak was elected as an MP from the northeast constituency.

On Thursday, after a meeting with selected corporators, Mangal Prabhat Lodha, Mumbai BJP chairman and Manoj Kotak declared Vinod Mishra as a group leader and Prabhakar Shinde as a candidate for the opposition leader. Ujjwala Modak and Rita Makwana will be deputy leader of the party in BMC. The BJP claimed the opposition leader post and given a letter to the Mayor Kishori Pednekar.