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Bharatiya Janata Party will contest 195 seats in the 227-member Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the elections for which are scheduled on 21st of this month. Mumbai BJP president Ashish Shelar declared the list of candidates late last night. BJP has fielded 117 candidates and has left 32 seats for its allies. Today is the last day of filing nominations for polls to India’s richest civic body.
BJP is contesting this election without any tie-up with its old ally the Shiv Sena. On January 26, Shiv Sena Party President Uddhav Thackeray had announced that his party would contest the upcoming civic polls in the state all alone, putting to rest speculations about forging of ties with its ally BJP.
BJP MP Kirit Somaiya’s son Neil has been nominated from ward no 108 in Mulund West. Deepak Thakur, son of Maharashtra’s Minister of State for Women and Child Development Vidya Thakur, will contest from ward no 50 in Goregaon. Besides, city BJP chief Ashish Shelar’s brother Vinod will contest from ward 51. Vinod is a sitting corporator from Malad, but his ward is now reserved for women.
In Colaba, legislator Raj Purohit’s son Aakash will be the party candidate from ward no 222. Aakash is politically active in the area and was a BJP nominee on BEST committee. BJP legislator Ameet Satam’s brother-in-law Rohan Rathod will contest from ward no 68 in Andheri West. In the neighboring Versova, the BJP has nominated Yogiraj Dhabhalkar in ward no 60. He is legislator Bharti Lavekar’s nephew.