Daughters of former underworld don and former MLA Arun Gawli loses elections

Mumbai: Underworld-don-turned-politician and former MLA Arun Gawli’s daughters — Geeta and Yogita — lost the polls in Mumbai.

Geeta and Yogita contested from the Byculla area of Mumbai from the Akhil Bharatiya Sena (ABHS), founded by Gawli.

While Geeta, a three-time corporator of the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), lost the elections from Ward No 212, her sister Yogita lost the elections from Ward No. 207.

Geeta lost to Samajwadi Party candidate Amrin Shezad Abrahani.

Yogita, in her maiden election, was defeated by BJP candidate Rohidas Lokhande.

It may be recalled, in September 2025, Gawli was released from the Nagpur Central Jail after he was granted bail by the Supreme Court.

Gawli is undergoing life sentence for the murder of Shiv Sena corporator Kamlakar Jamsandekar on 2 March, 2007 inside his residence and office in Asalpha village in Saki Naka area of Mumbai.

Gawli shot into prominence from Dagdi Chawl, a neighbourhood of Byculla.

In the eighties and nineties, he ran a crime syndicate which ran parallel to the Dawood Ibrahim gang of D-Company.

The 70-year-old Gawli, who once sported a thick black moustache, now has a white bearded look.

He always dons traditional white kurta-pajama and topi.

Gawli was an MLA from 2004-09 from Chinchpokli seat of Mumbai.

Gawli is popularly known as 'Daddy' while his wife Asha Gawli is known as 'Mummy'.