Shifting loyalties have always marked Mumbai’s civic politics. Parties have broken alliances, made new ones and switched sides whenever needed, all in the race to control the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the country’s richest civic body.

Ahead of the upcoming polls, expected in January, Congress and Shiv Sena (UBT) cadres want to contest alone despite being part of the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA). At the same time, the BJP has said that seat-sharing with its allies, the Eknath Shinde -led Shiv Sena and the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), will be decided on “technical and strategic” grounds.

Here is how alliances between Mumbai ’s political parties have changed over the years.

Shiv Sena’s shifting alliances

For more than six decades, the Shiv Sena’s

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