Dismayed Citizens, Despondent Fisherfolk Watch as Mumbaiâs Coastal Road Comes Up Rapidly
The entire project has been marked by opacity and lack of public consultation, say activists.
An artist s rendition of the construction of the Mumbai coastal road. Art: Parag Kashinath Tandel
Urban25/Jan/2021
Mumbai: Dredgers, cranes, pile drivers, sand and other construction equipment are all working round the clock and speedily filling up the sea to create new land. A small knot of men watch, helplessly â they are Kolis, a millennia-old community that has fished in the waters around Mumbaiâs coastline and generations later, still continues to do so.
NEW DELHI: Deciding which party, based on its numerical strength, should get the post of leader of opposition is not difficult but the question engaged the Supreme Court s attention as changed equation between Shiv Sena and BJP, whose friendly ties has turned into rivalry, in Maharashtra found reverberations in Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai.
In the 2017 elections, Shiv Sena got 84 seats, BJP 82 and Congress 31 in the 227-member corporation. Since, SS-BJP were coalition partners in the Maharashtra government, BJP decided not to contest for the Mayor post paving the way for Shiv Sena, which from 1985 till 2017 had controlled the richest civic body on its own, to take the post. BJP also decided to voluntarily give up the post of LoP because of its subsisting coalition with Sena. The post went to Congress.
The political dynamics in Maharashtra posed an unexpected surprise for the Supreme Court on Thursday, as it wondered how the Congress despite being in the ruling coalition in Maharashtra could enjoy the post of leader of opposition (LoP) .
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