Maharashtra Civic Election 2017

BMC Election 2017: Shiv Sena wins 84 seats but BJP with 82 shows Uddhav Thackeray who's the real 'boss'

Ahead of the civic polls, the discourse between the two former allies went into rough weather resulting in the dissolving of an alliance that was over 20 years old.

Maharashtra Civic Election 2017: Congress concedes defeat in state-wide polls; calls it a setback

Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) on Thursday conceded that the results so far for the ten municipal corporations, 25 Zilla Parishads and 283 Panchayat Samitis across the state have signalled a setback for the party.

Maharashtra Civic Election 2017: 'Jaldoot' does the trick for BJP; party set to win Latur

When Maharashtra government first announced to send a 'water train' to drought-hit Latur in 2015, one would have remotely imagined that it would reap a major political success for BJP in the Congress pocket borough.

BMC Election 2017: Counting to begin at 10 am in 23 centres, will decide fate of 2,275 candidates

The future of 2,275 candidates from 227 wards of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will be sealed in the next few hours with the counting of votes all set to begin at 10 am on Thursday.

BMC Election 2017: Shiv Sena to lodge complaint after 12 lakh names go missing from voter lists

More than 12 lakh Mumbaikars who showed up across the 227 wards on Tuesday to elect a new Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, had to return home disappointed as their names were missing from the voters' list provided by the Maharashtra State Election Commission.

BMC Election 2017: India Today exit poll shows Shiv Sena edging out BJP

An exit poll shows the Shiv Sena hold an edge over BJP in the BMC election held on Tuesday.

BMC Election 2017: Shiv Sena tops attendance rate; NCP corporators asked most questions on average

We also found that most of the top five corporators, by attendance and questions asked, are from the city’s prosperous western suburbs, and education levels and participation tend to be positively correlated with performance.

Maharashtra Civic Election 2017: Brisk, peaceful polling under way; 10 percent voter turnout recorded

Polling was under way on a brisk and peaceful note on Tuesday in Maharashtra to pick 10 major civic bodies, including the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation.

BMC Election 2017: Voters, not the politicians, could prove to be the real protagonist in the polls

In the BMC elections due on Tuesday, most voters are trapped between political apathy and civic responsibility and could prove to be the real protagonist.

BMC Election 2017: Shiv Sena and BJP play saffron politics to divide and conquer opposition parties

The BMC goes to polls on Tuesday after a high decibel campaign during which the voices of opposition parties were inundated in the acrimony between the saffron allies turned ‘rivals’: the Shiv Sena and the BJP.