As the curtain falls on Maharashtra's municipal council results, political attention has now shifted to the state's biggest prize: Mumbai.

NCP-SP announces plans to contest Mumbai municipal elections as part of the MVA coalition for the first time.

The opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) in Maharashtra, which fought last year's Lok Sabha elections and the Assembly elections together, has now gone for a split in the upcoming Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections.

The tussle over seat sharing for the BMC election continues in the Mahayuti camp, with the BJP coming up with a fresh formula that gives Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena more seats than its initial offer but is nowhere close to the party's wishlist.