A meeting was called between Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Gopal Sheety to convince the latter to take back his nomination as an independent candidate from the Borivali assembly seat. But according to sources, the talks have failed and Shetty will contest polls.

Maharashtra Assembly Elections 2024: Gopal Shetty, who won the Mumbai North Lok Sabha seat by margins of more than four lakh in 2014 and 2019, was denied a ticket in the 2024 general elections. The seat was won by senior BJP leader Piyush Goyal, who is now Union minister.