Mumbai woman confronts BJP leader over road-blocking protest
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Mumbai: A commuter in Mumbai publicly challenged Bharatiya Janata Party leader Girish Mahajan and police on Tuesday for blocking Worli roads during a Mahayuti coalition protest, with videos going viral.
Stepping from her vehicle after over an hour in traffic—to pick up her child—she demanded: "What is wrong with you? There are hundreds of people waiting. There's an empty ground there." When Mahajan urged calm, she retorted: "Get out of here."
The BJP protest decried Opposition defeat of the 2026 Constitution 131st Amendment Bill for women's reservation, which needed two-thirds Lok Sabha support the NDA lacked. Opposition backed women's quotas but opposed delimitation.
Aam Aadmi Party's Preeti Sharma Menon and Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi criticised road protests despite Azad Maidan's designation as South Mumbai's sole venue for protests since August. Social media hailed the woman commenting: "BJP’s ‘Nari Shakti’ [women power] drama in Mumbai got busted by one bold woman!" and "Protesting for women by torturing women? The hypocrisy is real. Even women aren't buying this anymore. Real Nari Shakti doesn’t block roads."
Congress women's wing praised her "proper scolding" of the "shameless BJP minister."