MUMBAI: With the aim to energize and maximize outreach, especially among Hindi-speaking North-Indian voters and to strengthen its position in Mumbai’s high-stakes BMC civic polls, the Mumbai BJP has roped in senior leaders from Uttar Pradesh, including Aparna Yadav and MP Ravi Kishan, to support and campaign for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections on January 15, 2026.
Aparna is the vice-president of State Women Commission, UP while Ravi Kishan is MP from Gorakhpur and popular in Mumbai.
As reported in sections of the media, in an urgent letter addressed to the BJP’s Uttar Pradesh president and organisation secretary, Mumbai BJP president Amit Satam said the party required the guidance, campaign support and active involvement of experienced leaders from UP to ensure the smooth conduct and organisational success of the civic polls, besides maximize outreach to the North-Indian community in Mumbai.
The letter requested the UP party leadership that senior leaders and office bearers from Uttar Pradesh be deputed to Mumbai for election campaigning, subject to their availability and willingness to campaign in Mumbai and surrounding areas.
Apart from Aparna Yadav and Ravi Kishan, the list includes Dinesh Lal Yadav Nirahua, Surendra Chaursia, Manish Kumar Jaiswal, Shalabh Mani Tripathi, Avadhesh Singh, Ramesh Mishra, Chhoturam and Ramesh Jaiswal.
The BMC election is seen as a high stakes contest for the BJP as it looks forward to expand its footprint in Mumbai’s local civic politics. The previous BMC term of elected representatives ended in February 2022, after which the civic body was run by administrators due to legal disputes over ward formation and reservation for Other Backwards Classes (OBCs), matters which were being heard in the Bombay High Court and the Supreme Court.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation election, is an election of members to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation which governs Greater Mumbai, the 2nd largest metropolis in India. The election will take place on January 15 and the counting will take place the next day, January 16.
The financial budget of the BMC is over Rs 74,000 crore, which is much larger than the budget of entire states in India, as well as larger than that of smaller nations across the world. The BJP wants to control this kind of spending power and is doing everything possible to ensure that its candidates win hands down.
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