BMC Budget LIVE: All eyes on Mumbai civic body budget today
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will present its Budget for 2026-27 on Wednesday (February 25, 2026).
Touted as India’s richest civic body, this is the first time in four years, the budget is being presented after after the elections.
In the recently held elections, the BJP has swept the 2026 civic polls, winning 1,425 of 2,869 seats across 29 municipal corporations, and wresting control of the BMC from Uddhav Thackeray, ending his family’s three-decade-old dominance in the cash-rich civic body.
The BJP won 89, and ally Shiv Sena bagged 29 seats in the 227-member BMC, while Shiv Sena (UBT) managed 65 and MNS six seats.
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