With the polling dates in Mumbai approaching fast, the residents from Mumbai North East constituency have lost all the hopes as candidates in fray fail to pick up the Mulund dumping ground problems.
The main complaint of the residents from Mulund, Kanjurmarg, and Vikhroli is “stink” problem which comes from Mulund dumping ground. According to the Indian Express, the main candidates from this constituency both Sanjay Dina Patil (NCP) and Manoj Kotak (BJP) have declared that they will focus to resolve the dumping ground issue, but the locals have said that they had learnt their lessons in 2014 aftermath. Robert D’Souza, a resident of Kannamwar Nagar in Vikhroli told the leading daily, “I still remember when Somaiya had come to our area asking for votes in 2014. He had promised that he would resolve our issues. But he has completely failed. In fact, whenever we went to see him, he behaved as if he is the MP of some other country.”
The BMC last year drew a new plan, according to which the waste dumped in the Mulund dumping ground was diverted to Kanjurmarg and Deonar dumping grounds. But the residents in the area have to say otherwise, “It’s shut only on paper as practically it’s still being used. I fail to understand that despite knowing that there is huge dumping ground in the neighbourhood, why did the BMC give permission to any builder to construct buildings at Hari Om Nagar, ” Sanjay Gaonkar, a Mulund resident told the leading daily.
