In Maharashtra, where big/main parties are engaged in talks for the Municipal Corporation elections, Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party has released the first list. The party has announced candidates for 21 wards of Mumbai. Releasing the list of candidates, the party said that as per the instructions of Maharashtra State President Abu Asim Azmi, the first list of candidates contesting from Samajwadi Party in the upcoming Mumbai Municipal Corporation elections has been released today (26 December).

Giving more information on this subject, Chief General Secretary of Samajwadi Party, Meraj Siddiqui said that the party will contest the elections with full strength in all the wards of Mumbai and very soon the list of other candidates will also be declared.

list of candidates

1.Ward 20 – Mohammad Azharuddin Siddiqui

2.Ward 64 – Dr. Sheela Akhilesh Yadav

3.Ward 90 – Sana Abbas Qureshi

4.Ward 96 – Subhash Shaikh Shabbir

5.Ward 134 – Poet Shahbaz Khan Azmi

6.Ward 135 – Shahbaz Sabir Shaikh

7.Ward 136 – Rubaba Nazeen Siddiqui

8.Ward 137 – Ahad Yunus Qureshi

9.Ward 140 – Appati Vidyasagar Dawar

10.Ward 141 – Zayed Imranullah Qureshi

11.Ward 142 – Jyoti Laxman Gude

12.Ward 143 – Ayesha Rahmatullah Sardar

13.Ward 148 – Sakshi Sunilkumar Yadav

14.Ward 174 – Dr. Arama Thakur

15.Ward 181 – Mohammad Adil Mumtaz Shaikh

16.Ward 188 – Ghaus Mohiuddin Latif Khan

17.Ward 201 – Irfan Sajid Ahmed Siddiqui

18.Ward 212 – Amreen Shahzad Abdullah

19.Ward 213 – Dominic Malik

20.Ward 220 – Ghulam Makhdoori

21.Ward 224 – Rukhsana Zafar Tikamwala

Samajwadi Party going alone in BMC elections!

Samajwadi Party is part of the ‘India’ block. Mahavikas Aghadi under India Block in Maharashtra includes Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT) and Sharad Pawar’s party NCP (SP). Despite this, Samajwadi Party is adopting the strategy of running alone in the BMC elections. Samajwadi Party’s Maharashtra unit president Abu Azmi had recently announced that SP alone will contest Mumbai Municipal Corporation elections on about 150 seats. Earlier, Samajwadi Party had also contested the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly elections alone, in which the party had won 2 out of 9 assembly seats.

When will BMC elections?

There is a competition among political parties to gain power over the 227-member BMC. The countdown for the elections of 29 municipal corporations including BMC in Maharashtra has started. Voting will take place on 15 January 2026 while the results will be declared on 16 January.

On the controversy over Muslim women offering Namaz at Shaniwar Wada in Maharashtra, Samajwadi Party leader Abu Asim Azmi said, I want to tell the BJP MP that fear Allah, Allah will wreak havoc, otherwise we will not know where he has gone. He further said that a person is worshiping, offering Namaz. He is being mistreated by BJP people. This is not tolerable. SP leaders were seen targeting BJP MP Medha Kulkarni.