BMC elections 2026: BJP releases first list of 66 candidates

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday released its first list of 66 candidates for elections to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), scheduled to be held in January next year. The saffron party, which leads the Mahayuti, is buoyed by its success in the recent municipal council and nagar panchayat elections in the state and is looking to repeat its performance in the municipal corporation polls. 

The BJP is contesting the BMC elections in alliance with Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena. Although the two parties are yet to announce the seat-sharing pact, sources had earlier told India TV that the BJP will contest on 140 seats of the 227 seats in the BMC. On the other hand, the Shinde Sena will contest on 87 seats.

Here's BJP's first list of 66 candidates:

1. Ward No. 2 – Tejasvi Ghosalkar
2. Ward No. 7 – Ganesh Khankar
3. Ward No. 10 – Jitendra Patel
4. Ward No. 13 – Rani Trivedi
5. Ward No. 14 – Seema Shinde
6. Ward No. 15 – Jigna Shah
7. Ward No. 16 – Shweta Korgaonkar
8. Ward No. 17 – Shilpa Sangore
9. Ward No. 19 – Dakshata Kavathankar
10. Ward No. 20 – Bala Tawde
11. Ward No. 23 – Shivkumar Jha
12. Ward No. 24 – Swati Jaiswal
13. Ward No. 31 – Manisha Yadav
14. Ward No. 36 – Siddharth Sharma
15. Ward No. 37 – Pratibha Shinde
16. Ward No. 43 – Vinod Mishra
17. Ward No. 46 – Yogita Koli
18. Ward No. 47 – Tejinder Singh Tiwana
19. Ward No. 52 – Preeti Satam
20. Ward No. 57 – Shrikala Pille
21. Ward No. 58 – Sandeep Patel
22. Ward No. 59 – Yogita Dabhadkar
23. Ward No. 60 – Sayali Kulkarni
24. Ward No. 63 – Rupesh Savarkar
25. Ward No. 68 – Rohan Rathod
26. Ward No. 69 – Sudha Singh
27. Ward No. 70 – Anish Makwani
28. Ward No. 72 – Mamta Yadav
29. Ward No. 74 – Ujjwala Modak
30. Ward No. 76 – Prakash Musale
31. Ward No. 84 – Anjali Samant
32. Ward No. 85 – Milind Shinde
33. Ward No. 87 – Mahesh Parkar
34. Ward No. 97 – Hetal Gala
35. Ward No. 99 – Jitendra Raut
36. Ward No. 100 – Swapna Mhatre
37. Ward No. 103 – Hetal Gala Marvekar
38. Ward No. 104 – Prakash Gangadhare
39. Ward No. 105 – Anita Vaity
40. Ward No. 106 – Prabhakar Shinde
41. Ward No. 107 – Neel Somaiya
42. Ward No. 108 – Deepika Ghag
43. Ward No. 111 – Sarika Pawar
44. Ward No. 116 – Jagruti Patil
45. Ward No. 122 – Chandan Sharma
46. Ward No. 126 – Archana Bhalerao
47. Ward No. 127 – Alka Bhagat
48. Ward No. 129 – Ashwini Mate
49. Ward No. 135 – Navnath Ban
50. Ward No. 144 – Bablu Panchal
51. Ward No. 152 – Asha Marathe
52. Ward No. 154 – Mahadev Shigvan
53. Ward No. 172 – Rajshri Shirodkar
54. Ward No. 174 – Sakshi Kanojia
55. Ward No. 185 – Ravi Raja
56. Ward No. 190 – Sheetal Gambhir Desai
57. Ward No. 195 – Rajesh Kangane (Worli constituency)
58. Ward No. 196 – Sonali Sawant
59. Ward No. 207 – Rohidas Lokhande
60. Ward No. 214 – Ajay Patil
61. Ward No. 215 – Santosh Dhole
62. Ward No. 218 – Snehal Tendulkar
63. Ward No. 219 – Sunny Sanap
64. Ward No. 221 – Akash Purohit
65. Ward No. 226 – Makarand Narvekar
66. Ward No. 227 – Harshita Narvekar