Rons Bantwal

Mumbai, Jan 11: After a gap of eight years, elections to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) are scheduled to be held on Thursday, January 15. In this context, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) campaign meeting was held today, Sunday, at Goenka Bhavan in J B Nagar, Andheri East.

From Andheri East’s K-East Ward No. 82, BJP has fielded Tulu-Kannadiga candidate Jagadheeshwari Jagadish Amin, originally from Karkala. Addressing the BJP–Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde)–RPI Athawale alliance (Mahayuti) public meeting, Union Minister and Law and Justice, Labour, Employment, Development, Art and Culture, Language, and Tourism Minister Kapil Mishra attended as the chief guest and extended his best wishes to all the candidates in the fray.

Chief speaker Kapil Mishra cabinet minister (NCT of Delhi), chief guest, Parag Alavani (MLA, Vile Parle Assembly Constituency), Acharya Pawanji Tripathi (Mahamantri, BJP - Mumbai), BJP leaders Santosh Kelkar, Jagdish Amin (Anna) (former corporator, Ward No. 82), Subhash Kanta Sawant (Assembly chief - Shiv Sena), (BJP Fund Head), Ratan Asware (vice-president RPI-A), Sanjay Wakode (observer Sahar Mandal), Shuklesh Goswami (Sahar Mandal president), Parmatma Gupta (former president Ward 82), Vikas Tiwari president Ward 82) were present.