India, Dec. 30 -- As of Monday evening, the second last day for filing nominations for the 227 seats in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), only 401 aspiring corporators had filed their nomination papers. Among these, 357 nominations were filed on Monday itself.

Various factors have delayed the process of filing nominations including delay in announcing candidates by political parties and disagreements in seat-sharing among Mahayuti and Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) partners.

In all, 11,568 nomination forms were distributed between December 23-29. Among these, 1,225 forms were sold on Monday, ostensibly to ensure proper form filling and avoid getting rejected at the scrutiny stage. Aspiring candidates said the documentation for fili...