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Gopal Chinayya Shetty is a Mumbai based Mangalore origin Indian politician. He is a member of parliament from Mumbai North. Previously, he was a 2 terms Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) from the Borivali Vidhan Sabha constituency and 3 terms Corporator of Brihanmumbai Mahanagar Corporation (BMC) from 1992-2004. He is currently the Member of Parliament for Mumbai-North constituency.

He was the president of the Mumbai unit of Bharatiya Janata Party.

He has also served the Bharatiya Janata Party in various capacities from Mandal secretary to the president of Mumbai BJP.

In 2016, Shetty surrendered public land, including the Poinsur Gymkhana, Kamla Vihar Sports Complex, and Veer Savarkar Udyan plots, which had been directly or indirectly placed under his control.

Gopal Shetty, the BJP candidate won the 2019 Indian general elections in the North Mumbai constituency, defeating Congress party (INC) candidate Urmila Matondkar by a margin of 465,247 votes. This victory set a record for the highest number of votes received by any candidate in Maharashtra during the 2019 elections.

He has taken active participation in all the initiatives of PM Narendra Modi. Mumbai Local trains are lifeline of Mumbai and Borivali is a major junction which is starting point for Western Railway locals and stopping point for all the major long distance trains. Gopal Shetty was active in implementing various facilities for travelers like escalators, elevators and Foot over Bridges (FOB's) at Borivali Railway Station.

Borivali "The Suburb of Gardens"

Borivali can be called as the garden suburb as it had one of the National Park with Kanheri Caves. Now in last 10-15 years it has been a suburb with a bouquets of garden due to the efforts of Shri Gopal Shetty the MLC, MLA and then MP of this area.

His strong point is that he is risen from a grass-root worker to BMC corporator, MLA and then MP, due to which he was able to work with various government departments, NGO’s and other organizations to make Borivali a The Suburb of Gardens, you will find a garden at every half a kilometer here with different themes.

There are various plantations theme in each garden, Gopinath Munde garden Largest collection of Palm trees is an example of Vertical garden in this collection of gardens/parks.

Blood Donation Drives

Gopal Shetty has always appealed people to donate blood at least once in a year and if more its better. He makes a point that functions in his constituency are marked Blood donation drive and his efforts over the years would have garnered donation of more than a 1 lakh blood bottle units.

Controversies

His remarks about farmer suicide created ruckus in media, later he clarified he was misquoted.

“Not all farmers’ suicides happen due to unemployment and starvation. A fashion is going on. A trend is on.”

He was slammed by activists and opposition for his 'sexist' private member's bill in Lok Sabha.

He stoked a controversy by saying Christians did not participate in freedom movement and alleged corruption in utilization of open spaces.

References

1. title=Mumbai North MP Gopal Shetty To End Parliamentary Journey With Tribute To Lord Rama And Citizens| url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240601021626/https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/mumbai-north-mp-gopal-shetty-to-end-parliamentary-journey-with-tribute-to-lord-rama-and-citizens
2. "Denied Lok Sabha ticket, Mumbai BJP MP Gopal Shetty says 'such shocks are not new'". The Indian Express. 14 March 2024. Retrieved 22 April 2024.
3. "Gopal Shetty replaces Chavan as BJP's Mumbai chief". daijiworld.com. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
4. "BJP MP Gopal Shetty 'allowed' 9 open spaces to be encroached". Mumbai Mirror. 7 January 2019.
5. Parab, Bhagwan (19 January 2016). "Gopal Shetty to surrender plots". The Asian Age.
6. "Trends at 4 pm: Manoj Kotak celebrates with party workers as BJP-Shiv Sena sweep Mumbai". Mumbai Mirror. 23 May 2019. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
7. "Congress' Urmila Matondkar Loses To BJP's Gopal Shetty By 4.6 Lakh Votes". HuffPost India. 23 May 2019. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
8. Mumbai's first public 'vertical garden' built to pay tribute Gopinath Munde., retrieved 11 November 2023
9. "BJP MP Gopal Shetty says farmer suicides a 'fashion'". Deccan Chronicle. 19 February 2016. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
10. Makar; Gadgil. "BJP MP's 'regressive' bill slammed by activists". Mumbai Mirror. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
11. Makar; Gadgil. "Watch: Mumbai MP Gopal Shetty says Christians were like the Brits during freedom struggle". Mumbai Mirror. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
12. "Gopal Shetty, Mumbai North: Mired in corruption charges and controversies, MP seeks another term". Citizen Matters. 26 April 2019. Retrieved 28 April 2019.

v t e Members of the 16th Lok Sabha from Maharashtra
Bharatiya Janata Party (22)	Hansraj Ahir Sharad Bansode Subhash Bhamre Harishchandra Chavan Raosaheb Danve Sanjay Dhotre Nitin Gadkari Sunil Gaikwad Dilipkumar Gandhi Heena Gavit Raksha Khadse Poonam Mahajan Pritam Munde pre-bye poll: Gopinath Munde – deceased Ashok Nete A. T. Patil Kapil Patil Sanjaykaka Patil pre-bye poll: Nanabhau Patole – resigned Gopal Shetty Anil Shirole Kirit Somaiya Ramdas Tadas pre-bye poll: Chitaman Wanga – deceased
Shiv Sena (18)	Shivajirao Adhalrao Anandrao Adsul Shrirang Barne Ravindra Gaikwad Bhavana Gawali Anant Geete Hemant Godse Prataprao Jadhav Sanjay Jadhav Chandrakant Khaire Gajanan Kirtikar Sadashiv Lokhande Vinayak Raut Arvind Sawant Rahul Shewale Shrikant Shinde Krupal Tumane Rajan Vichare
Nationalist Congress Party (5)	Udayanraje Bhosale Dhananjay Mahadik Vijaysinh Mohite-Patil Supriya Sule
Indian National Congress (2)	Ashok Chavan Rajiv Satav
Swabhimani Paksha (1)	Raju Shetti
GE 2014 result summary	BJP-23 SS-18 NCP-4 INC-2 SWP-1
2014 bye-election	Pritam Munde (pre-bye poll: Gopinath Munde – deceased)
2018 bye-election	Madhukar Kukde (pre-bye poll: Nanabhau Patole – resigned) Rajendra Gavit (pre-bye poll: Chitaman Wanga – deceased)
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