CM Fadnavis condoles death of BJP Mumbai chief Amit Satam's mother
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Loss arrived quietly in a Mumbai home on Sunday, October 11, 2026 — and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis was among the first to stand beside the grieving family. Shital Satam, mother of BJP Mumbai president and MLA Amit Satam, passed away, prompting Fadnavis to personally visit the family's residence in Mumbai to pay his last respects and offer condolences.
Sharing his condolences on X, Fadnavis wrote in Marathi: 'आईचे छत्र हरपणे ही आयुष्यात कधीही भरून न निघणारी पोकळी असते' — 'The loss of a mother's shelter is a void that can never be filled in one's lifetime.' He expressed that he and his colleagues stand in solidarity with Amit Satam and his family in this moment of deep sorrow, closing with the prayer ॐ शांती (Om Shanti).
A Chief Minister at the doorstep of grief
Fadnavis did not limit his tribute to a social media post. He visited the Satam family's Mumbai residence in person, paying homage to the memory of the late Smt. Shital Satam and offering comfort to the bereaved family. The gesture underscored the close political and personal bonds within the Maharashtra BJP leadership.
Amit Satam serves as president of the BJP's Mumbai unit — one of the party's most critical urban organisational posts — making the bereavement a moment of shared sorrow across the party's Maharashtra apparatus. A void left by a mother, as Fadnavis noted, is one no public role or public honour can fill.