The newly declared 2025 Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) reservation list has left both the highest and lowest vote-getters from the 2017 civic polls untouched — preserving the city’s strongest bastions and narrowest margins under the same caste and gender categories.
In the 2017 elections, Dharampeth’s Prabhag 16 had delivered the BJP’s most decisive victories. Vanita Sunil Dandekar (OBC–Women) polled 20,358 votes, Lakhan Sumera Yerwar (SC–Open) secured 19,450, and Sandeep Diwakar Joshi, now an MLA, topped the city with 20,724 votes. The 2025 reservation chart keeps all three seats in their original categories, allowing the BJP to retain its dominance in this high-profile belt.
At the other extreme, the city’s lowest vote-winners have also seen no alteration. Naseembano Mibrahim Khan (Prabhag 3D, BJP) — who won with just 4,411 votes — remains under General (Women); Parasram Manvatkar (3A, INC) continues in SC (Open); while Sanjay Arunrao Chaware (5D, BJP), who scraped through with 5,662 votes, retains a General (Open) seat.
This rare pattern of continuity stands out in an otherwise widespread reshuffle that has significantly altered ward categories across North, East, and South Nagpur, especially where OBC and SC women’s seats were rotated. Yet, politically crucial zones such as Dharampeth, Mangalwari, and Hanuman Nagar remain unchanged — their reservation matrix static since 2012.
Analysts believe this status quo favours incumbency and entrenched party networks, particularly the BJP, which had swept these regions in 2017. While the lottery has unsettled many new aspirants elsewhere, Nagpur’s biggest winners and narrowest survivors from the last election remain firmly in place — advantageously positioned for the 2025 civic polls.
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