In Maharashtra’s Charkop seat, Congress plans to break BJP’s 3-term winning streak

Highlighting the “anti-incumbency” factor, Singh is assured to interruption the BJP’s winning streak this time, nevertheless Sagar believes to marque his comeback to the bureau by grounds majority.

“Even though I person served my constituency for 15 years now, the ‘anti-incumbency’ origin doesn’t beryllium successful my case. If the radical had mislaid their religion connected maine past my enactment wouldn’t person fixed maine a summons this year,” Sagar told the Indian Express.

“My docket this clip is chiefly aimed towards slum redevelopment. I americium keen towards creating a 5 twelvemonth master-plan that volition absorption connected creating of a coordination committee betwixt respective agencies similar MHADA, territory collector among others truthful that the seamless rehabilation could beryllium taken up successful Mumbai. Besides this, respective authorities onshore parcels are already being illegally encroached and my nonsubjective volition beryllium to escaped these lands truthful that they tin beryllium developed for nationalist usage,” helium added.

Located successful the bluish suburbs of Mumbai, Charkop became a standalone constituency successful 2009 aft the Kandivali constituency was bifurcated. Sagar became the archetypal MLA successful 2009 by defeating Congress’s Bharat Parekh by 16,000 votes.

In 2014, the past undivided Shiv Sena and BJP contested the assembly elections separately, and Sagar retained his spot defeating Sena’s Subhada Gudekar by 64,000 votes. Later successful 2019, Sagar again defeated Congress’s Kalu Budhelia by 73,000 votes.

Alongside lodging precocious rises and slum pockets, Charkop is besides location to hundreds of hectares of mangrove patches. The Poisar stream besides flows done this constituency and clogging of this stream has been 1 of the cardinal causes down water-logging during the monsoon season.

“For the past 15 years determination has been lone 1 campaigner and 1 enactment ruling from here. However, the problems that existed past besides beryllium today. Till date, determination is nary multispeciality infirmary successful this ward and considering the increasing colonisation determination is simply a dire request of due aesculapian facility. Several slum rehabilation projects are stuck successful limbo for much than a decennary now, adjacent though the structures person been demolished caller operation is yet to begin,” Singh told Express.

“The contiguous MLA has been sitting connected developmental projects for galore years present and the feeling of anti-incumbency could beryllium seen among the people. This year, radical are seeking for a alteration successful their constituency,” helium added.

The Charkop assembly has a colonisation of 3 lakh people, of which astir 10% comprising Muslim population. While Maharashtrians and Gujaratis due 65% of the population, North-Indians, Catholics and East Indian assemblage fills the rest.

Besides Sagar and Singh, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena’s (MNS) Dinesh Salvi. However, the sitting MLA maintained that determination is nary accidental of votes getting divided successful this constituency.

“In 2014, I defeated the Sena which is known for their pro-Marathi agenda. People successful my constituency cognize that I americium a Maharashtrian archetypal and past a Gujarati truthful there’s nary constituent successful the votes getting divided. The Congress lone banks connected a circumstantial assemblage for votes which is precise little erstwhile compared with the full population” Sagar said.