India, Dec. 30 -- Four former mayors, Vishakha Raut, Shraddha Jadhav, Milind Vaidya and Kishori Pednekar (all Shiv Sena-UBT); former opposition leader in the BMC, Ravi Raja, who quit the Congress to join the BJP; Tejaswini Ghosalkar, recently inducted into the BJP from the Sena (UBT); and BJP spokesperson Navnath Ban, were among those fielded by their respective political parties for the high-stakes, January 15 municipal elections.

While the Shiv Sena was slow off the blocks, with aspirants waiting for tickets till late on Monday, the Congress declared its first list of 87 candidates. The party has repeated only four names from the list of corporators elected during the last BMC polls.

Significantly, several politicians across parties s...