Varun Singh and Somita Pal explain why we're likely to have a Saffron mayor again for the next two years

Shiv Sena's Shraddha Jadhav has a clear upper hand over Congress candidate Prescila Kadam in today's mayoral election.

The polls will be held at 11 am at the BMC headquarters and results will be declared in a couple of hours.

The Sena is getting help from the MNS and the Samajwadi Party, the Congress's alliance partners in the BMC right now. Both the parties have decided to stay neutral this time.

This will reduce the Congress-led alliance's numbers from 109 corporators to 96.
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While SP has seven corporators, the MNS has six. An MNS leader said, "If we support the Congress, our Marathi manoos ideology will be affected. Hence, we will remain neutral." But the Sena-BJP alliance too has suffered.

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