BMC polls: Draft boundaries of electoral wards to be out soon

MUMBAI: The State Election Commission (SEC) has said that the draft boundaries of electoral wards in Mumbai for the upcoming BMC polls will be published and suggestions and objections will be called before they are finalised.
The SEC told the Congress in a written response that the final ward boundaries will be published after considering the feedbacks. In a written reply to Congress corporator Ravi Raja, who is the opposition leader in the BMC, SEC deputy commissioner Avinash Sanas has said that the draft ward boundaries will be published in the government gazette and suggestions and objections will be called on them.
“The suggestions and objections will be examined and the final ward boundaries will be published. Once the draft ward boundaries are published, and suggestions and objections are called, then the same should be filed,” Sanas said to Raja in a letter last week. Raja had alleged that ahead of the 2017 BMC polls, the BJP-led state government had directed that ward boundaries be changed to help the BJP’s candidates. “In 2017, the then state changed electoral wards which favoured BJP in at least 40 to 50 constituencies. This was unfair,” Raja wrote.