Mumbai: Complaint filed against woman who confronted BJP leader for blocking road during protest

The Mumbai Police on Friday said that a complaint has been filed against a woman who confronted Bharatiya Janata Party leader Girish Mahajan and police personnel for blocking a road during a protest march on Tuesday, PTI reported.

The complaint was filed at the Worli police station on Wednesday by a person.

The police said on Friday that no first information report had been registered against the woman.

The incident had taken place when the protest by the ruling Mahayuti coalition in the state led to traffic congestion in the Worli area. The protest was to be held at the Jambori Maidan.

The woman reportedly stepped out of her vehicle, and was heard asking Mahajan, a state minister, and police officers not to block the road and protest at a ground instead.

The woman, whose identity is unclear, said that she had been stuck in the traffic and had to pick up her child. She told a police officer that she had been waiting in traffic for more than an hour.

When Mahajan asked her to calm down, the woman asked him to “get out of here”.

“What is wrong with you?” she had asked. “There are hundreds of people waiting. There’s an empty ground there.”

She asked the police to clear the traffic.

In August, the Maharashtra government had designated Azad Maidan as the only venue for all protests in South Mumbai.

The woman had been praised by social media users.

On Wednesday, Mahajan said that the woman was not wrong, IANS reported. However, he said that a protest march such as this, irrespective of the organiser, “has to move from one place to another”, which would mean that the “road is bound to be blocked”.

“Some inconvenience is inevitable in any protest,” he added. “Still, there is a proper way to express anger and I feel the language used was inappropriate.”

The complainant claimed that the woman created a ruckus, used abusive language against police officers, obstructed the protest march and caused public disturbance, PTI reported.

“You have problems, you have a total constitutional provision to go and file a complaint,” ANI quoted the complainant as saying.

The complainant has sought that an FIR be registered against the woman under sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita pertaining to obstructing public servants on duty, assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty, intentional insult, assaulting or obstructing public servant and statements conducing to public mischief, PTI reported.

On Wednesday, Mumbai Mayor Ritu Tawde, who belongs to the BJP, expressed regret for the inconvenience caused to commuters during the rally.

The BJP protest march

The BJP on Tuesday was protesting against the Opposition for defeating a constitutional amendment bill in Parliament on April 17. The ruling party claimed that the Opposition was against women’s interests because it stood against what the BJP describes as the women’s reservation bill.

The 2026 Constitution 131st Amendment Bill, one of three draft legislations, was defeated in the Lok Sabha. As a constitutional amendment bill, it required a two-thirds majority of votes to pass. The ruling National Democratic Alliance does not have a two-thirds majority of MPs in any House and had required the support of the Opposition to pass the amendment.

Opposition parties have maintained that they supported the amendments to the Women’s Reservation Act, but were opposed to the proposed delimitation of electoral constituencies.

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