3 min readMumbaiJul 10, 2026 10:45 PM IST
First published on: Jul 10, 2026 at 10:45 PM IST
In another major blow to the opposition in Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), two more elected corporators lost their candidature after the state government’s caste scrutiny committee invalidated their caste certificates that were submitted during the election registration process earlier in January this year.
Roshan Shaikh from the AIMIM was elected from Mumbai’s ward number 138 in the Govandi-Mankhurd area. Shaikh is the second corporator to lose candidature from AIMIM.
Earlier on June 22, AIMIM candidate — Sameer Ramzan Patel, who was elected from the neighbouring ward number 137 was suspended on similar grounds.
Now with two councillors losing their candidature in ward numbers 137 and 138, two neighbouring wards in Mumbai’s marginalised M east ward are set to run without any elected representative.
Another candidate — Bushra Nadeem Malik from the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) who was elected from ward number 170 in Kurla east also lost her candidature on Friday. Malik is the daughter in law of Kaptan Malik — who is the brother of Nawab Malik — senior NCP leader and former cabinet minister in Maharashtra.
The suspension of candidature of these two candidates was announced by Mumbai’s Mayor — Ritu Tawde in the civic house on Friday afternoon. Meanwhile, with these two suspensions, the total number of municipal councillors goes up to four in just two months.
According to civic officials the two constituencies (138 and 170) were originally reserved for the women candidates hailing from other Backward class (OBC) communities.
The civic body’s rules state that whenever the candidature of a corporator is disqualified, the candidate who finished second in the last civic election will be declared as the new incumbent corporator for that post.
“The declaration is to be made by the court, only after that candidate approaches it. Till then, the seat will stay vacant,” an official told the Indian Express.
For the Kurla (Malik) ward the seat is likely to go to a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate, while for the Govandi Mankhurd (Shaikh) ward the seat will go to the Samajwadi Party (SP).
For AIMIM, this brings down the number of elected representatives from this party to 6, while that of NCP will come down to 2.
Meanwhile, the BJP seat is likely to increase to 91, while SP’s seat count will go up to 3.
Earlier on June 18, Shiv Sena (UBT) corporator — Deepak Sawant was the first candidate to lose his candidature owing to submission of false certificates. Sawant was elected from Bhandup’s ward number 111 and his seat is likely to go to a BJP candidate. Meanwhile, Patel’s seat is likely to go to a Shiv Sena candidate.
The suspension of these candidates are likely to take up the seats of the ruling Mahayuti alliance to 120 in the Mumbai civic body.
Now with two councillors losing their candidature in ward numbers 137 and 138, two neighbouring wards in Mumbai's marginalised M east ward are set to run without any elected representative. (Express file photo) 
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