From Garden Group to Corporator: Harsh Mehta Gets Candid | Candidly Yours

He ran a Ganpati celebration with 2,000 dhol players and a hydraulic Mahadev statue — then won his first election. This week on Candidly Yours, we sit down with Harsh Mehta. Harsh wears a few different hats: General Secretary of BJP Yuva Morcha in Surat City, President of Garden Group (the team behind one of Surat's most talked-about Ganesh Utsav productions), and — as of April 2026 — the newly elected Corporator for Ward 11, Adajan-Gorat. In this conversation with hosts Yash & Shraddha, Harsh gets candid about: How running a neighborhood Ganesh Utsav mandal turned into an actual political career Winning his first election, and what surprised him once he was actually in office The stories behind Garden Group's biggest spectacles Balancing party work with actually representing his ward What nobody tells you about young politics in India No script. No PR filter. Just a real conversation — the way Candidly Yours always is. 🎙️ New episodes drop regularly — subscribe and get candid with us. — Follow Harsh Mehta: instagram.com/harsh.mehta_garden • Garden Group: instagram.com/garden_group_surat Follow Candidly Yours: [add handle once live] #CandidlyYours #HarshMehta #SuratPodcast #IndianPodcast #GaneshUtsav #PodcastIndia #CandidConversations