With the Shiv Sena’s Standing Committee chairman Yashwant Jadhav demanding that reservations for civic elections be drawn 10-yearly instead of the existing five-yearly, the Congress party’s strategy committee after their meeting on Monday said the Reservations and the Delimitations should be drawn up again. Committee member and Congress party group leader in the BMC Ravi Raja has said it is because of the delimitation that the BJP got more corporators than in 2012. 

On the day the Supreme Court dismissed a petition by BJP that was filed seeking the Leader of Opposition position in BMC and thus a Congress party’s Leader of Opposition will continue, the Congress leader during a media briefing said this was BJP’s big loss. He also said that as BJP was in power during the last civic elections when the boundaries were redrawn, they ensured that the lines are drawn in such a way that it would benefit their party.