Mumbai, Jan. 16 -- Early trends being reported from the counting of votes in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections on Friday showed the BJP-Shiv Sena Mahayuti alliance leading in 93 wards, while Shiv Sena (UBT) and MNS alliance trailed with 57 leads, off these the UBT Sena leads in 48 the MNS in 8 and the NCP-SP in 1 seat.

The Congress leads in 10 wards, and Ajit Pawar's NCP faction in 1 , according to preliminary reported data from the ongoing vote counting. In the BMC election resuls so far BJP's Navnath Ban won ward number 135, Varsha Tembavalkar of Shiv Sena (Shinde) won Ward 51 of the BMC, defeating the NCP-SP candidate. Rekha Ram Yadav of Shiv Sena (Shinde) won Ward 1 of the BMC, with Congress' Sheetal Mhatre finis...