Career
She was elected to the post on 10 March 2007 and was the third woman mayor of the 124-year-old civic body. She also served as a corporator representing the northern Mumbai suburb of Dahisar, and was on crucial standing committees of the Bombay Municipal Corporation ( Business Service Management) for over two years. She lives in Borivili, Mumbai.
She is 40 years old (in 2007).
She has two daughters – 15-year-old Tanvi and 12-year-old Mayuri. Her husband Umesh is a horticultural manager with Oil and Natural Gas Corporation. She belongs to Raul community – a sub sect of Mali community in Maharashtra.
This caste is one of the backward classes listed by the Maharashtra government. Her tenure had also been controversial: she wanted Ganesh idol height reduced, adopted a cow and kept it in her bungalow without licence and went on seven foreign tours apart from cracking down on hookah parlours.
