The 36 Assembly seats that fall within Mumbai City and its suburbs are set to witness a fierce, multi-corner electoral contest as Maharashtra votes on November 20. Among the 420 candidates in the fray, whose fate will be decided by an electorate of around 1 crore, are several top politicians, ministers and scions of political families.
The two parties with the most at stake are the two Shiv Senas, as Mumbai has always been the party’s bastion. It is the first Assembly election that will see the Shiv Sena led by Eknath Shinde and the Shiv Sena (UBT) take on each other, and which party has the upper hand in Mumbai could decide their futures going forward.