BMC elections 2026: Sanjay Raut calls Shinde ‘Jaichand’ after BJP mayor win

Shiv Sena UBT leader Sanjay Raut on Friday said Mumbai would not have seen a BJP mayor had Maharashtra Deputy Chief Eknath Shinde not betrayed the partyIn a post on X Sanjay Raut drew parallel to Jaichand a historical character reviled for betrayalHad Eknath Shinde not been a Jaichand to Shiv Sena Mumbai would not have seen a BJP mayor Marathi people will always remember Shinde as Jaichand Raut said Dev_Fadnavis mieknathshinde pictwittercomCHC1GnIqymmdash Sanjay Raut rautsanjay61 January 16 2026Shinde along with 39 MPs revolted against party leadership Uddhav Thackeray and dislodged his government in 2022 Since then the Shiv Sena UBT leader has routinely labelled Shinde as a traitorThe BJP wins 89 seats in the BMC elections results of which were announced on Friday Ally Shiv Sena got 29 The two parties crossed halfway mark in 227member civic bodyThe undivided Shiv Sena controlled the BMC from 1997 to 2022Saffron surge in civic polls as BJP clinches 1425 seats across 29 municipal corporationsMeanwhile the BJP has swept the 2026 civic polls winning 1425 of 2869 seats across 29 municipal corporations and wresting control of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC from Uddhav Thackeray ending his familys threedecadeold dominance in the cashrich civic bodyThe BJP won 89 and ally Shiv Sena bagged 29 seats in the 227member BMC while Shiv Sena UBT managed 65 and MNS six seats The Congress which fought in alliance with Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi VBA bagged 24 seats AIMIM 8 NCP 3 Samajwadi Party 2 and NCP SP got just one seatThe saffron party stunned the Pawars in the Pune polls clinching 119 seats with Ajit Pawarled NCP coming in distant second with 27 and its ally NCP SP getting three seats while the Congress managed 15 seatsIn the 151member Nagpur civic body the BJP held sway getting 102 while the Congress bagged a mere 34Nashik saw the BJP bagging 72 seats Shiv Sena 26 Shiv Sena UBT 15 Congress 3 and NCP 4The BJPs victory streak continued in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar where it won 57 seats followed by Shiv Sena with 13 Congress with one while other parties registered with the SEC especially the AIMIM bagged 33 seatsAccording to the final tally the BJP won 1425 out of a total 2869 seats Shiv Sena 399 Congress 324 NCP 167 Shiv Sena UBT 155 NCP SP 36 MNS 13 BSP 6 parties registered with the SEC 129 unrecognised parties 196 and 19 independentsThe elections were held in the following municipal corporations Mumbai Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Navi Mumbai VasaiVirar KalyanDombivli Kolhapur Nagpur Solapur Amravati Akola Nashik PimpriChinchwad Pune Ulhasnagar Thane Chandrapur Parbhani MiraBhayandar NandedWaghala Panvel BhiwandiNizampur Latur Malegaon SangliMirajKupwad Jalgaon Ahilyanagar Dhule Jalna and Ichalkaranji