Vandana Gawli is an Indian politician, belonging to the Akhil Bharatiya Sena. [1] [2] She is the sister-in-law of ABS leader Arun Gawli. [3]
She won the Ward 204 seat (Byculla railway station) in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation elections of 2007 and 2012. [4] [5] In 2007, she obtained the largest victory margin of all candidates in the election, with 11,868 votes (a victory margin of 9,512 votes). [3] After the 2012 municipal election, she became the chairperson of the municipal Civic Improvements Committee, which deals with all land reservation issues.<ref>Midday. Gangster kin to head BMC committees <(//yadavji//)
Arun Gulab Gawli also known as Arun Gulab Ahir, is an Indian politician, underworld don and retired gangster. Gawli and his brother Kishor (Pappa) entered the Mumbai underworld in the 1970s, when they joined the "Byculla Company", a criminal gang led by Rama Naik and Babu Reshim, operating in the central Mumbai areas of Byculla, Parel and Saat Rasta. In 1988, after Rama Naik was killed in a police encounter, Gawli took over the gang and began operating it from his residence, Dagdi Chawl. Under his control, the gang controlled most criminal activities in the central Mumbai areas. Throughout the late eighties and nineties, Gawli's gang was involved in a power struggle with Dawood Ibrahim's D-Company gang. Gawli is also the founder of the Akhil Bharatiya Sena political party based in Maharashtra.
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