Updated On: 30 December, 2025 02:38 PM IST | Mumbai | Eeshanpriya MS
Former BJP corporator Nehal Shah has decided to contest the BMC Election 2026 as an Independent candidate from F-North Ward Number 177 after the party denied her a ticket from her home ward, which is reserved for women, despite her decisive victory in the 2017 civic polls

Nehal Shah had won the 2017 BMC election from ward 177 with a margin of over 8,500 votes. Pic/X
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Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) corporator from F North Ward’s electoral ward number 177, Nehal Shah, has decided to file her nomination as an Independent candidate on Tuesday after the party denied her a ticket from her home ward, which is reserved for women, for the BMC Election 2026.
Shah had won the 2017 BMC election from ward 177 with a margin of over 8,500 votes, securing 11,298 votes, or 56 per cent of the total votes polled.