A BJP veteran, Prakash Mehta has been lording over his Assembly constituency, which comprises a part of very resourceful and happy-go-lucky Gujarati community-dominated Ghatkopar. Such has been his elective merit there that neither opponents nor a sceptical BJP will doubt the outcome in his favour.

By next Assembly polls, an unconquered Mehta will complete three decades in the state legislature that has been witness to changing fortunes of political parties. He represented Ghatkopar in the Lower House, mostly as an Opposition member. He shifted to the ruling benches in 2014, that too in a seat at the front by virtue of being a Cabinet minister.