Sitting MLA Trupti Sawant's decision to contest as an independent candidate, after being denied a ticket by the Shiv Sena for the Bandra East constituency, doesn't seem to have gone down well with some. Sawant has alleged that party workers campaigning for Sena candidate, Mayor Vishwanath Mahadeshwar, have been threatening her supporters for helping out in her campaign.

Sawant said that some local Sena workers were unhappy with the party's decision of refusing her a ticket and have been helping her. "The Sena workers who have been helping me have received threatening phone calls and are being discouraged from supporting me. They are helping me because they believe in the work that my husband has done in this area and I am confident that I will win again," said Sawant.