Mumbai city’s next mayor will be from BJP: J P Nadda

President of Bharatiya Janata Party J P Nadda visited Maharashtra state to meet the political party's local leaders and party workers. He urged the party members to put in collective efforts so that the next mayor of Mumbai City is from BJP. The last mayor of Mumbai was Kishori Pednekar (from Shiv Sena) before the five-year term of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) ended in March 2022.

In the 2017 BMC elections, the BJP made a magnificent impact by obtaining 82 of 227 seats, just two seats behind the Shiv Sena (undivided). Nadda speaking to the party representatives said, “We all need to work in such a way that the next mayor of Mumbai city will be from BJP. With your strength, we can achieve this resolution. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has come up with various skill development courses for people. Our party workers must develop some skills and the ability to listen to the people. People should feel that a BJP worker listens to them with patience and can help solve their problems. A party worker is the one who always maintains the party’s image in public.”

At an event called Panna Pramukh Sammelan held at Kandivali, JP Nadda emphasised that in the upcoming BMC elections, the mayor must be from BJP. Echoing similar thoughts as Nadda, the BJP's Mumbai president Ashish Shelar said that for upcoming BMC elections, the mayor will be from NDA - BJP and Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena faction).

The BJP President said, “I won't comment on the Maha Vikas Aghadi (Sena-UTB, Congress and the NCP), but during their governance, all projects and development work was stopped. You all are aware of the corrupt government at that time. Our mayor should be elected in the upcoming BMC elections. We have potential and power for the same.”

He added, “We are the only party whose ideologies don't change. We removed Article 370 in Kashmir. They made fun of us on Ramlalla issue, they said waqt nahi batayege. We gave them the time as well. Atalji did testing of nuclear in Pokhran. We are the party, where we do, what we say.”