Aaditya Thackeray, in his first-ever electoral fight, will face Dr Suresh Mane, a backward class scholar and leader associated with the Bahujan movement. Mane was picked by NCP as an alliance candidate of the non-BJP parties for Worli constituency.

Mane's nomination is expected to attract sizable backward class voters in the constituency which the NCP held through Sachin Ahir, who recently defected to the Sena. Ahir had won the seat in 2009 and lost to Shiv Sena's Sunil Shinde in 2014.