Counting for Maharashtra municipal, ZP polls begins
While the municipal corporation polls were held yesterday, elections to 27 zilla parishads and 309 Panchayat Samitis were held on 7 February.
In Mumbai, 2,232 candidates were in the fray for 227 electoral wards in the city. Elections were also held yesterday in Thane, Pune,Ulhasnagar, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Solapur, Nashik, Akola, Amravati and Nagpur municipal corporations.
The
Shiv
Sena-BJP
combine
rules
the
country’s
richest
civic
body
of
Mumbai
besides
neighbouring
Thane
(130),
Ulhasnagar
(78),
Nashik
(122)
and
Nagpur
(145),
whereas
Congress
controls
Amravati
(87),
the
Congress-NCP
combine
Pune
(152)
and
Solapur
(102).
NCP
holds
Pimpri-Chinchwad
civic
body
(126)
and
Congress
Amravati
(87).
Akola municipal corporation has 73 seats and was under Congress-NCP rule but was dissolved by state government last year over financial irregularities.
PTI