Mumbai: Shiv Sena Wins Civic Bypoll

Reporters Today, Mumbai: The Shiv Sena today won the by-poll from theward no 141 of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation in suburban Mankhud, said officials.

Polling in the ward took place yesterday and votes were counted today. Sena candidate Vithhal Lokare defeated his nearest rival, Bablu Panchal of the BJP, by a margin of 1,385 votes.

Lokare secured 4,427 votes, while the BJP candidate got 3,042 in the ward located in Mankhurd in Mumbai’s suburban district.

A total of 18 candidates were in the fray in the ward where the bypoll was necessitated after Lokare, who was the sitting Congress corporator, resigned and joined the Shiv Sena in August 2019.

The BMC, India’s richest civic body ruled by the Sena, has a total of 227 numbers of seats.