In a crucial development towards long-pending BMC elections, expected to be held in January 2026, the lottery determining reservation of wards for Scheduled Caste (SC), Schedule Tribe (ST), Other Backward Classes (OBC) and Women candidates was drawn on Tuesday. This has not only cleared the path for the political parties to finalise their candidates but will carve out the poll strategies and campaigns. Mumbai has a total of 227 civic electoral wards, of which 50% are reserved for women candidates, including SC, ST and OBC.

Major Leaders Lose Strongholds as Wards Get Reserved

The draw on Tuesday has changed the status of several heavyweight seats and former corporators, which were in general category in 2017 but are reserved for OBC for the upcoming polls, such as former Leader of Opposit

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