Ahead of BMC polls, Uddhav meets former corporators

August 12, 2022 21:22

Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Friday asked former party corporators to stay in constant touch with people as the crisis-hit outfit braces for the crucial elections to the Mumbai civic body.

Former mayor Kishori Pednekar said Thackeray had called a meeting at Sena Bhavan in Dadar in central Mumbai which was attended by former party corporators of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation whose term ended earlier this year.

In the 2017 BMC polls, the Shiv Sena had won 84 seats in the 227-member House.

Pednekar said 12 former corporators did not turn up for the meeting. Of these, nine had informed they were out of Mumbai, while two cited medical reasons for their absence.

One corporator did not turn up after assuring that he would attend the meeting.

Thackeray also spoke about the "uprising in Bihar' by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and slammed the BJP for vitiating the political environment in the country as well in Maharashtra. -- PTI

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