Overview
- The BJP released a list assigning senior leaders to manage preparations across districts for upcoming local body elections, including municipal corporations and smaller rural bodies.
- Ganesh Naik will oversee multiple Mumbai Metropolitan Region units covering Thane city and rural areas, Kalyan-Dombivli, Ulhasnagar, Mira-Bhayandar, Bhiwandi and Navi Mumbai.
- Ashish Shelar has been named election in-charge for the Mumbai civic polls, which local reports expect in January, a move some party figures interpret as shifting strategy control in the city unit.
- Girish Mahajan will lead the Nashik Municipal Corporation effort, with Rahul Dhikle as election head, Rahul Aher handling the North Zone, Girish Palwe the South Zone and Dada Jadhav supervising the Malegaon region.
- Further assignments include Pankaja Munde in Beed, Nitesh Rane in Sindhudurg, Ashok Chavan in Nanded, Murlidhar Mohol in Pune, Jaykumar Gore in Solapur, Atul Save in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Prashant Thakur in Raigad, Sanjay Sawkare in Jalgaon and regional monitors across Vidarbha for Nagar Panchayat and Municipal Council polls.