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With Anahita Mehta reelected to her second term on the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, the Mehta family will serve a record 10 consecutive five-year terms
Parinaz M. Gandhi

"The response I got showed that I had fulfilled my people’s expectations.” Trouncing her nearest Bharatiya Janata Party rival by a margin of 6,557 votes Congress (I) candidate Anahita Rusi Mehta’s name appeared third in the list of "Biggest victory margins” featured by The Times of India of February 3, 2007, two days after the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) election of 2007. Presently the only Parsi municipal councilor on the BMC, Mehta, winning 10,232 votes, was reelected  to the Ward 210 (Navjivan Society, Grant Road) seat which this time too was reserved for a lady candidate. "Jé Khodai ni marji......



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