Unlike 2014, Poonam Mahajan has kept a low profile while campaigning in the Mumbai North-Central constituency, which she won for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the first time then, beating Congress nominee Priya Dutt. This time, Mahajan is banking on the claims of her good achievements, which she thinks will defeat the Congress's design of dividing voters on the basis of caste and community. Political legacy is a common factor between the duo as heirs of their illustrious fathers.

Mahajan, a trained commercial pilot, tells mid-day why she is confident of winning.