Mukta Tilak, the wife of Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak’s great-grandson Shailesh, is all set to be the new mayor of Pune. On Wednesday, she filled up the form as a mayoral candidate of the BJP, which has got a resounding majority, winning 98 wards out of 162.

Mukta Tilak has won from the Narayan Peth-Sadashiv Peth area in the heart of Pune city. She lives with her extended family at the iconic Kesari wada, where Lokmanya Tilak spent his life. Incidentally, this is the centenary year of Tilak’s famous slogan ‘Swarajya is my birth right and I shall have it’ that had shaken the roots of the British empire in India.

Fifty-one-year-old Mukta is proud of her great-grandfather-in-law. She says she gets inspiration from Lokmaya's work, which "people here haven't forgotten". Why is she then in the BJP and not in Lokmanya's Congress?