Uddhav Thackeray's BMC Blunder: Alliance Misstep Cost Him the Throne
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News18•17-01-2026, 10:26
Uddhav Thackeray's BMC Blunder: Alliance Misstep Cost Him the Throne
- •The Mahayuti alliance (BJP and Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena) won the BMC elections with 118 out of 227 seats, surpassing the majority mark of 114.
- •BJP secured 89 seats, and Shinde's Shiv Sena won 29, ending the Thackeray family's 25-year dominance in Mumbai's richest civic body.
- •Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena (UBT) won 65 seats, down from 84 in 2017, while his alliance with MNS yielded only 6 seats for MNS.
- •A key mistake identified was Uddhav Thackeray's failure to ally with Congress, which contested alone and won 24 seats.
- •Data suggests that a combined Uddhav-Congress alliance could have secured more seats by preventing vote splitting, potentially challenging Mahayuti's victory.
Why It Matters: Uddhav Thackeray's decision to not ally with Congress proved costly, leading to the loss of BMC to Mahayuti.
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