AIMIM, NCP ladies BMC corporators disqualified over invalid caste certificates | India Information
NEW DELHI: Two ladies corporators of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Company (BMC), one every from the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and the Nationalist Congress Get together (NCP), have been disqualified on Friday after separate district verification committees declared their caste validity certificates invalid.The motion, introduced by Mumbai mayor Ritu Tawde throughout the civic physique’s basic assembly, takes the variety of corporators disqualified on related grounds within the 227-member BMC home to 4 inside a month.The disqualified corporators are Roshan Shaikh of AIMIM, elected from Ward 138, and Bushra Nadeem Malik of the NCP, who represented Ward 170 in Kurla East. Each had been elected from seats reserved for the Different Backward Lessons (OBC) ladies class.Mayor Tawde mentioned separate district caste certificates verification committees had, following scrutiny, declared the caste validity certificates submitted by each corporators invalid. Consequently, she mentioned, their memberships within the BMC routinely stood terminated from the dates on which the certificates have been declared invalid.In accordance with the mayor, the caste validity certificates submitted by Shaikh on November 23, 2025, was declared invalid by the Parbhani District Caste Certificates Verification Committee on April 27 this 12 months.Equally, Malik’s caste validity certificates, submitted on December 1, 2025, was declared invalid by the Akola District Caste Certificates Verification Committee on July 2 this 12 months.With the disqualification of Shaikh and Malik, AIMIM’s energy within the BMC Home has decreased to 5 members, whereas the NCP’s tally has come down to 2.The event follows related motion final month in opposition to two different corporators. AIMIM corporator Shamir Ramzan Patel, elected from Ward 137 in Govandi, and Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) corporator Deepak Sawant, elected from Ward 111 in Bhandup’s S Ward, have been disqualified after the District Caste Certificates Verification Committee declared their caste validity certificates invalid.
