Uddhav Thackeray's Alliance Blunder Cost Him BMC Throne

• The Mahayuti (BJP and Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena) won the BMC elections with 118 seats, ending the Thackeray family's 25-year dominance.
• BJP secured 89 seats, while Shinde's Shiv Sena won 29, surpassing the majority mark of 114 in the 227-seat corporation.
• Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena (UBT) won 65 seats, and his alliance with MNS (6 seats) totaled only 71 seats.
• Uddhav Thackeray's key mistake was not allying with Congress, which won 24 seats independently; a combined MVA could have challenged Mahayuti.
• Vote splitting between Uddhav's Shiv Sena and Congress benefited the Mahayuti, particularly in closely contested wards.

Why It Matters: Uddhav Thackeray's failure to reunite the MVA, especially with Congress, led to his BMC defeat.