BMC mayoral race: Woman from general category to head richest civic body; UBT Sena condemns move

MUMBAI: The station of Mumbai Mayor has been reserved for a pistillate from the unfastened category, pursuing a lottery conducted by the authorities Urban Development Department connected Thursday. The preservation lottery took spot successful the beingness of Minister of State for Urban Development, Madhuri Misal.

Senior politicians from crossed enactment lines attended the event, including BJP’s Rajesh Shirwadkar, Shiv Sena (UBT) Corporator Kishori Pednekar, MLA Manoj Jamsutkar and NCP’s Anand Paranjape. The lottery determines reserved positions for the 29 Municipal Corporations successful the state, ensuring practice based connected class and gender.Reacting to the decision, erstwhile Mumbai politician and Shiv Sena (UBT) person Kishori Pednekar questioned wherefore the BMC was not included nether the OBC category. She noted that the mayoral station had remained unfastened successful the erstwhile 2 terms, suggesting the alteration was unnecessary.