#BMCElections: Groom heads to voting booth hours before tying the knot

It may be his special day, but this groom has one last thing to check off his list before getting married on Tuesday.

Mahesh Nawale headed to the polling booth to cast his vote in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections at Navbharat Vidyalaya in Parel, Mumbai, just hours before tying the knot.

#BMCelection: A bridegroom, Mahesh Nawale casts his vote before marriage at Navbharat Vidyalaya in Parel, Mumbai. pic.twitter.com/w4ZeErAXpX

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The local body polls will witness a battle between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Shiv Sena, the Congress, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), ANI reported.

The big poll focus is on Brihanmumbai Municipal Cooperation (BMC) — one of the world's largest city bodies, boasting of an annual budget of over Rs 37,000 crore — and retaining control of which is vital for Shiv Sena as the city has remained its prime political space ever since the party's formation in 1966.

Shiv Sena has been in power in BMC for over two decades.

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