Mumbai: Mayor Ritu Tawde on Wednesday announced the names of 10 nominated corporators in the BMC House. Of these, four are from the Bharatiya Janata Party, three from the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT), two from the Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde faction), and one from the Indian National Congress.The number of nominated corporators in the BMC has been increased to 10; earlier, there were only five. With 227 elected corporators and 10 nominated members, the total strength of the BMC House now stands at 237. On Wednesday, as soon as the mayor announced the BJP’s nominated corporators, slogans of “Jai Shri Ram” were raised in the House.In the BMC elections, the BJP emerged as the single-largest party with 89 members. Along with 29 corporators from the Shinde-led Shiv Sena, the Mahayuti alliance has 118. With support from four corporators belonging to the NCP and NCP (SP), the alliance’s strength has risen to 122.After the increase in nominated seats from five to 10, the distribution stands as follows: BJP—four seats; Uddhav Thackeray faction—three; Shinde faction—two; Congress—one.The BJP’s nominated corporators include former Congress opposition leader in the BMC Pravin Chheda, Nitesh Singh, Pratik Karpe and Kamalakar Dalvi.From the Sena (UBT), Sainath Durge, Madhuri Manjrekar, and Kailash Pathak were nominated.From the Eknath Shinde faction, Raj Surve (son of Magathane MLA Prakash Surve) and Umesh Mane were named.The Congress nominated former Malad councillor Virendra Chaudhary, considered close to Malad MLA Aslam Shaikh.
