Overview
- AIMIM won roughly 125–126 corporator seats across 13 Maharashtra municipal corporations, with standout tallies in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (~33) and Malegaon (~21), and gains in Nanded, Dhule, Amravati, Solapur and Mumbai.
- Asaduddin Owaisi said the party will never ally with the BJP, citing disciplinary action in Akot where corporators who joined a BJP-linked grouping were directed to withdraw and were subsequently suspended.
- Leaders said interviews are underway to field candidates in about 12 Zilla Parishads for the February 5 polls, aiming to translate civic momentum into the next tier of local governance.
- Reports from Malegaon indicate a local outfit, the Islam Party, emerged as the single-largest group with 35 seats in the 84-member corporation, while AIMIM secured 21.
- In Mumbai’s BMC, AIMIM captured eight seats concentrated in the M/East ward covering Govandi–Mankhurd, displacing rivals and raising resident expectations for improvements in one of the city’s most underdeveloped areas.