<p>The civic polls in the satellite township of Navi Mumbai is going to be a litmus test for both the BJP and the newly-formed Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance. </p>.<p>The 111-seat Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) polls is scheduled to be held in April.</p>.<p>The NMMC elections would be a sort of precursor to the 2022 civic elections when civic polls would be held in urban areas of Mumbai, Thane, Pune, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Nashik, Nagpur among others.</p>.<p>BJP has already started preparations and holding its state-executive meetings and conventions over the weekend in Nerul in Navi Mumbai. </p>.<p>On Sunday, BJP national president JP Nadda will address party leaders and workers besides Devendra Fadnavis, his counterpart in Council Praveen Darekar, state BJP president Chandrakant Patil among others.</p>.<p>This is the first important meeting of the BJP's Maharashtra unit after they lost power in the state and its 30-year-old ally Shiv Sena walked away to form government with NCP-Congress.</p>.<p>For MVA leader and Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and NCP supremo Sharad Pawar, the Navi Mumbai polls are a matter of prestige.</p>.<p>Ahead of Vidhan Sabha polls, Pawar's close aide Ganesh Naik left and joined the BJP.</p>.<p>Besides, another factor that cannot be discounted in these elections is Uddhav's estranged cousin and MNS president Raj Thackeray has adopted aggressive Hindutva alongside his agenda of welfare of 'Marathi manoos'.</p>.<p>The Aam Aadmi Party too is expected to contest the civic polls in the urban pockets. In Navi Mumbai, there is going to be some political churning - and BJP is not leaving any stones unturned. </p>.<p>When Naik switched over from NCP to BJP, 50-odd corporators left and joined the latter. But after the fractured mandate in state polls, BJP lost power.</p>
<p>The civic polls in the satellite township of Navi Mumbai is going to be a litmus test for both the BJP and the newly-formed Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance. </p>.<p>The 111-seat Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) polls is scheduled to be held in April.</p>.<p>The NMMC elections would be a sort of precursor to the 2022 civic elections when civic polls would be held in urban areas of Mumbai, Thane, Pune, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Nashik, Nagpur among others.</p>.<p>BJP has already started preparations and holding its state-executive meetings and conventions over the weekend in Nerul in Navi Mumbai. </p>.<p>On Sunday, BJP national president JP Nadda will address party leaders and workers besides Devendra Fadnavis, his counterpart in Council Praveen Darekar, state BJP president Chandrakant Patil among others.</p>.<p>This is the first important meeting of the BJP's Maharashtra unit after they lost power in the state and its 30-year-old ally Shiv Sena walked away to form government with NCP-Congress.</p>.<p>For MVA leader and Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and NCP supremo Sharad Pawar, the Navi Mumbai polls are a matter of prestige.</p>.<p>Ahead of Vidhan Sabha polls, Pawar's close aide Ganesh Naik left and joined the BJP.</p>.<p>Besides, another factor that cannot be discounted in these elections is Uddhav's estranged cousin and MNS president Raj Thackeray has adopted aggressive Hindutva alongside his agenda of welfare of 'Marathi manoos'.</p>.<p>The Aam Aadmi Party too is expected to contest the civic polls in the urban pockets. In Navi Mumbai, there is going to be some political churning - and BJP is not leaving any stones unturned. </p>.<p>When Naik switched over from NCP to BJP, 50-odd corporators left and joined the latter. But after the fractured mandate in state polls, BJP lost power.</p>