Andheri East Assembly Election Results: In Sena vs Sena, Murji Patel defeats Rutuja Latke by big margin

Murji Patel (Kaka) of the Shiv Sena won the Andheri East constituency deafeating his closest competitor Rutuja Ramesh Latke of the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) by a margin of 25,486 votes, according to Election Commission of India’s (ECI) data.

Candidate Names	Party	Votes
Murji Patel	Shiv Sena	94,010
Rutuja Ramesh Latke	Shiv Sena	68524

Rutuja Latke had won this seat on a Shiv Sena ticket in the 2022 bypoll, after her husband’s sudden death. Ramesh Latke earlier won this seat in 2014 and 2019, after losing it to Congress’ Suresh Shetty in 2009.

Here is a look at all the candidates in fray.

Candidate Names	Party
Rutuja Latke	Shiv Sena (UBT)
Murji Patel	Shiv Sena
Kundan Waghmare	Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)
Kausar Syed	Rashtriya Ulama Council
Advocate Pradeep Sonawane	Rashtriya Swarajya Sena
Prema Flavia	Swabhimani Paksha
Bala Nadar	Aapki Apni Party (Peoples)
Manish Raut	Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi
Manoj Nayak	Right to Recall Party
Advocate Sanjeevkumar Kalkori	Vanchit Bahujan Aaghadi
Pahal Singh	Independent
Farhana Sayed	Independent

Murji Patel is a former corporator who was earlier in the BJP and recently switched parties to join the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena faction. He had lost the seat to Ramesh Latke in 2019 as an independent candidate. During the 2019 Assembly election in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena’s Latke defeated Patel (Kaka) by 16,965 votes. In the 2022 bypoll, Patel was nominated by the BJP but the party later withdrew his candidature, paving the way for Rutuja Latke’s victory.

Candidate Names	Party	Votes
Ramesh Latke	Shiv Sena	62,773 (42.67%)
Murji Patel	Independent	45,808 (31.14%)
NOTA	–	4,311 (2.93%)

Earlier this year, a case was registered against Murji Patel for allegedly submitting fake documents to the poll body while contesting the 2017 Mumbai civic polls. Patel was accused of using fake documents to obtain a caste certificate.

In 2019, despite a clear majority, the BJP and Shiv Sena alliance fell apart over the chief minister’s post, resulting in the formation of Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA). However, the MVA government collapsed after the Eknath Shinde-led camp rebelled against the Uddhav Thackeray-led government in June 2022, splitting the party.

A similar split was witnessed in NCP in July last year as Ajit Pawar parted ways with his uncle Sharad Pawar and joined the ruling Mahayuti.

In 2024, the Mahayuti — comprising the BJP, Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) — is pitted against MVA, featuring Congress, Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) and Sharad Pawar’s NCP-SP.

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