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(L-R): Rajeshree Shirwadkar, Alka Kerkar, Yogita Koli, Harshita Narwekar
MUMBAI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is poised to instrumentality the Mumbai mayor’s station for the archetypal clip since the 1980s, with the enactment narrowing its prime to respective women corporators. The station was reserved for a pistillate from the unfastened class successful a gully of tons held connected Thursday by the Urban Development Department.
- Among the frontrunners are Ritu Tawde, a two-time corporator from Ghatkopar who joined the BJP from Congress successful 2012.
- Alka Kerkar, a three-time Bandra West corporator with adjacent links to the RSS and erstwhile lawman mayor.
- Rajeshree Shirwadkar, a third-term Sion corporator.
Party insiders accidental the enactment volition equilibrium organisational priorities with electoral strategy, arsenic the BJP returns to the mayor’s seat aft astir 40 years — the past BJP politician being Dr Prabhakar Pai successful the 1980s. Other names successful contention see Tejasvee Ghosalkar from Dahisar, a erstwhile Shiv Sena (UBT) corporator seen arsenic a tactical prime linked to lawman main curate Eknath Shinde’s program to people the commencement centenary of precocious Bal Thackeray. Additional possibilities see Harshita Narvekar from Fort, Priti Satam from Goregaon, Yogita Koli from Malad, Shital Gambhir from Mahim, and Swapna Mhatre from Bandra West.
