The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Shiv Sena registered their respective corporators separately on Monday for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) general body. Each party now has separate group leaders in the BMC. While the Shiv Sena group leader is two-time Matunga corporator Amey Ghole, the BJP group leader is Ganesh Khankar, the corporator from Dahisar. Khankar is set to become group leader in the House (general body), as BJP is the single largest party, leading the entire 227-member body of elected representatives in the BMC.

According to information from the office of the municipal secretary, the Congress party has already nominated Ashraf Azmi as its group leader, while the MNS has nominated Yashwant Killedar, corporator from ward 192 in Dadar, and AIMIM (All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen) has nominated Vijay Ubale from ward no. 140 as its group leader. Ubale is the only corporator among AIMIM’s eight elected representatives who is not from the Muslim community.