Bandra West seat: BJP's Mumbai chief Shelar seeks third term from one-time Cong bastion
The Hindu
Bandra West assembly seat in Maharashtra, a battleground between BJP's Ashish Shelar and Congress' Asif Zakaria.
Mumbai's Bandra West assembly seat, comprising an area with plush houses of some of Bollywood's top film stars as well as localities from Santacruz and Khar, was a Congress stronghold till 2014 before the BJP wrested it through its city unit chief and high-profile leader Ashish Shelar.
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Mr. Shelar, seeking a third win on the trot in the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections, is pitted against the Congress' Asif Zakaria, who was defeated by the former in 2019 by a margin of 26,507 votes.
Bandra West assembly seat has 2,87,657 voters, comprising 1,49,443 men and 1,38,204 women. It has some of the poshest houses in the city, mainly in Bandra West and Khar, as well as teeming slum colonies apart from middle class localities of Santacruz. The area sees a steady stream of visitors all through the year as people from across the country arrive to catch a glimpse of film icons Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan.
According to observers, scarcity of basic amenities, shortage of housing, slum redevelopment curbs due to CRZ, especially in congested areas like Khar Danda that is home to slums and fisherfolk settlements, are issues facing the electorate.
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Incidentally, in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls to the Mumbai North Central seat, BJP's lawyer-turned-politician Ujjwal Nikam got a lead of 3,500 votes over Congress' Varsha Gaikwad, the eventual winner, from the Bandra West assembly segment.
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