Press Release: Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation Elections 2026: Analysis of Criminal Background, Financial, Education, Gender and other Details of Winning Candidates

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Press Release

16th February, 2026

Dear Friends,

The Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Maharashtra Election Watch have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of all 227 winning candidates in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Elections 2026.

The full reports in English, Hindi and Marathi can be accessed here: https://adrindia.org/content/Analysis-of-Criminal-and-Financial-background-details-of-Winning-Candidates-BMC-Elections-2026

Summary and Highlights

Criminal Background

Winning candidates with Criminal Cases: Out of the 227 winning candidates analysed in 2026, 54(24%) winning candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves.

Winning candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: 29(13%) winners have declared serious criminal cases against themselves.

Party wise winning candidates with Criminal Cases: 29 (33%) out of 89 winning candidates from BJP, 10 (15%) out of 65 winning candidates from Shiv Sena (UBT), 7 (24%) out of 29 winning candidates from Shiv Sena, 3 (13%) out of 24 winning candidates from INC, 2 (25%) out of 8 winning candidates from AIMIM, 1 (17%) out of 6 winning candidates from MNS, 1(33%) out of 3 winning candidates from NCP and 1 (100%) out of 1 winning candidates from NCP(SP) have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.

Party wise winning candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: 16 (18%) out of 89 winning candidates from BJP, 7 (11%) out of 65 winning candidates from Shiv Sena (UBT), 3 (10%) out of 29 winning candidates from Shiv Sena, 1 (4%) out of 24 winning candidates from INC, 1 (13%) out of 8 winning candidates from AIMIM and 1 (100%) out of 1 winning candidates from NCP(SP) have declared serious criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.

Figure: Party Wise Percentage of Winning Candidates with Criminal Cases

Financial Background

Crorepati Winning candidates: Out of the 227 winning candidates analysed, 180 (79%) are crorepatis.

Party-wise crorepati winning candidates: 68 (76%) out of 89 from BJP, 54 (83%) out of 65 from Shiv Sena(UBT), 27 (93%) out of 29 from Shiv Sena, 22 (92%) out of 24 from INC, 4 (67%) out of 6 from MNS, 2 (100%) out of 2 from SP, 2 (67%) out of 3 from NCP and 1 (100%) out of 1 winning candidates from NCP(SP) have declared assets worth more than Rs. 1 crore.

Figure: Party wise Percentage of Crorepati Winning Candidates

Figure: Share of Wealth Among Winning Candidates

Share of Wealth among winning candidates: The table given below shows the share of wealth among winning candidates in BMC Elections, 2026:

Value of assets (Rs.)	No. of winning candidates	Percentage of winning candidates
5 crores and above	79	35%
2 crores to 5 crores	75	33%
50 lakhs to 2 crores	44	19%
10 lakhs to 50 lakhs	18	8%
less than 10 lakhs	11	5%

Table: Share of Wealth Among winning candidates

Average assets: The average of assets per winning candidates in the BMC Elections 2026 is Rs 7.18 Crores.

Party wise average assets: The average assets per winning candidates for 89 BJP winning candidates is Rs 8.98 Crores, 65 Shiv Sena(UBT) winning candidates is Rs 5.09 Crores, 29 Shiv Sena winning candidates is Rs 7.45 Crores, 24 INC winning candidates is Rs 8.57 Crores, 8 AIMIM winning candidates is Rs 17.51 Lacs, 6 MNS winning candidates is Rs 3.43 Crores, 3 NCP winning candidates is Rs 12.26 Crores and 2 SP winning candidates have average assets of Rs 8.23 Crore.

High asset winning candidates: The top three winning candidates with high assets are given below:

S.No.	Name	Ward	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Naravekar Makrand Suresh	Ward 226	BJP	32,13,04,800	92,32,77,810	1,24,45,82,610 124 Crore+	Y
2	Sharma Chandan Chittranjan	Ward 122	BJP	38,96,02,714	45,79,88,921	84,75,91,635 84 Crore+	Y
3	Narvekar Harshita Ashwin	Ward 225	BJP	24,39,31,230	39,22,75,500	63,62,06,730 63 Crore+	Y

Table: Top three winning candidates with highest declared assets

Low asset winning candidates: The details of three winning candidates with the lowest assets are given below:

S.No.	Name	Ward	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Kanade Nirmiti Bibhishan	WARD 133	Shiv Sena	54,237	0	54,237 54 Thou+	Y
2	Patel Shamir Ramjan	WARD 137	AIMIM	83,483	0	83,483 83 Thou+	Y
3	Ubale Vijay Tatoba	WARD 140	AIMIM	1,52,733	0	1,52,733 1 Lacs+	Y

Table: Three winning candidates with lowest declared assets

Winning candidates with high liabilities: 55 winning candidates have declared liabilities of Rs 1 crore and above, and the details of the top 3 winning candidates are as follows:

S.No.	Name	Ward	Party Name	Total Assets(Rs)	Liabilities (Rs)	Disputed liabilities (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Jadhav Yamini Yashwant	WARD 209	Shiv Sena	14,57,59,804 14 Crore+	1,44,41,19,925 144 Crore+	1,42,92,79,925 142 Crore+	Y
2	Naravekar Makrand Suresh	WARD 226	BJP	1,24,45,82,610 124 Crore+	80,17,60,660 80 Crore+	0	Y
3	Patel Kesharben Murji	WARD 81	BJP	36,44,24,658 36 Crore+	9,50,00,000 9 Crore+	0	Y

Table: Top three winning candidates with high liabilities

Winning candidates with high income as declared in ITR*: The table below shows 3 winning candidates who have declared highest income in their Income Tax Returns.

S.No.	Name	Party Name	Ward	Total Asset (Rs)	The financial year for which the last income tax return has been filed by winning candidate	Total income shown by winning candidate in ITR (Self+Spouse+Dependent) (Rs)	Self-income shown by winning candidate in ITR (Rs)
1	Qureshi Mo Ibrahim Mo Iqbal	INC	WARD 92	2,75,93,075 2 Crore+	2025-2026	3,29,20,839 3 Crore+	2,48,54,942 2 Crore+
2	Sharma Chandan Chittranjan	BJP	WARD 122	84,75,91,635 84 Crore+	2024-2025	1,74,60,310 1 Crore+	1,67,47,950 1 Crore+
3	Phanse Yeshodhar Padmakar	Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray)	WARD 59	25,84,92,238 25 Crore+	2024-2025	1,26,86,790 1 Crore+	1,10,22,010 1 Crore+

Table: Top 3 winning candidates with high income as declared in income tax returns

*Total income includes income of self, spouse and dependents

Other Background Details

Education Details of winning candidates: 106 (47%) winning candidates have declared their educational qualification to be between 5^th pass and 12^th pass, while 114 (50%) winning candidates have declared having an educational qualification of graduate and above. 5 winning candidates are Diploma holders. 1 winning candidate has declared his education as just literate and 1 winning candidate is Illiterate.

Age details of winning candidates: 64(28%) winning candidates have declared their age to be between 21 and 40 years while 160 (70%) winning candidates have declared their age to be between 41 and 70 years. There are 3 winning candidates who have declared their age above 70 years.