AIMIM, NCP women BMC corporators disqualified over invalid caste certificates | India News

NEW DELHI: Two women corporators of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), one each from the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), were disqualified on Friday after separate district verification committees declared their caste validity certificates invalid.The action, announced by Mumbai mayor Ritu Tawde during the civic body’s general meeting, takes the number of corporators disqualified on similar grounds in the 227-member BMC house to four within 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. Both had been elected from seats reserved for the Other Backward Classes (OBC) women category.Mayor Tawde said separate district caste certificate verification committees had, following scrutiny, declared the caste validity certificates submitted by both corporators invalid. Consequently, she said, their memberships in the BMC automatically stood terminated from the dates on which the certificates were declared invalid.According to the mayor, the caste validity certificate submitted by Shaikh on November 23, 2025, was declared invalid by the Parbhani District Caste Certificate Verification Committee on April 27 this year.Similarly, Malik’s caste validity certificate, submitted on December 1, 2025, was declared invalid by the Akola District Caste Certificate Verification Committee on July 2 this year.With the disqualification of Shaikh and Malik, AIMIM’s strength in the BMC House has reduced to five members, while the NCP’s tally has come down to two.The development follows similar action last month against two other 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, were disqualified after the District Caste Certificate Verification Committee declared their caste validity certificates invalid.