3 min readMumbaiFeb 4, 2026 05:21 PM IST
First published on: Feb 3, 2026 at 01:54 PM IST
The BJP’s choice for the next mayor of Pune is a 46-year-old Business Management postgraduate, Manjusha Nagpure, who belongs to a family with a staunch Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) background. Nagpure was preferred over other frontrunners, four-time corporator Varsha Tapkir and three-time corporator Mansi Deshpande.
A third-time corporator, Nagpure, was elected unopposed in the recently held Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) elections.
In the January 15 PMC elections, Nagpure was elected unopposed from the Suncity-Manikbaug ward on Sinhagad Road.
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Incidentally, Nagpure represents the electoral ward that is part of the Baramati Lok Sabha constituency represented by NCP(SP) working president Supriya Sule. The BJP had been trying hard to win the Baramati Lok Sabha constituency.
Nagpure was first elected to PMC as a corporator in 2012 from the Anandnagar area on Sinhagad Road and, since then, she has made it to the civic body as a corporator thrice.
An SSPU graduate, former IT worker
Born in 1979, Nagpure is one of the most highly educated corporators elected to PMC.
Nagpure’s husband, Deepak, is a staunch right-wing leader and an office bearer of the Bharatiya Janata Party, and through him, she entered electoral politics from the seat reserved for women in PMC.
The couple has a business with significant income from leasing their commercial property. Nagpure has declared an asset worth Rs 3.22 crore.
She graduated from Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) in 1999, and did her Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from ICFAI University in 2021. She worked at an IT firm but quit her job to contest civic elections at her family’s insistence.
She is the mother of two children, aged 17 and 5, respectively.
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Electoral promises
During her campaign for the PMC elections, Nagpure assured voters that she would work to resolve the city’s traffic issues by improving traffic signals, widening roads, and strengthening the Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML) bus service.
Representing the flood-prone area along Sinhagad Road, Nagpure plans to construct a retaining wall along the Mutha River and establish a Flood Alert System to provide early warning to residents. She wants to push the river improvement and beautification project undertaken by PMC.
For public health, Nagpure wants to launch the Swachh Ward, Beautiful Ward concept in the city to address waste dumping in open areas. She said she wouldwork to upgrade civic hospitals and introduce digital education in civic schools.
Manjusha Nagpure graduated from Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) in 1999, and did her Master's in Business Administration (MBA) from ICFAI University in 2021. 
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