Details of BMC Elections 2007

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BMC Elections : News Stories
- IE : Race for BMC’s Five Nominated Seats Heats Up : Feb 17, 2007 -In the running are those who lost out in the civic polls.
- TOI : Muslim clerics blamed for splitting votes : Feb 8, 2007 -A group of Muslim religious leaders in the city are facing the ire of secular activists.
- DNA : New voters on the Cards : Feb 7, 2007 -If all the documents are in order, the voters can get their ID cards online.
- TOI : Women mayors for city, Thane and Navi Mumbai : Feb 1, 2007 -Last time Mumbai had a woman mayor was in 1997-98 when Sena’s Vishaka Raut held the post
- TOI : What Happens to Your Vote After it is Cast : Feb 1, 2007 -Each polling booth usually sees only 1,200 to 1,400 votes being cast
- DNA : BMC coughs up Rs12 cr for polls : Feb 1, 2007 -Spends Rs14 per voter across wards
- TOI : The two faces of a corporator : Feb 1, 2007
- IE : BMC all set for elections today : Feb 1, 2007 -Results will be declared in Standing Committee meeting hall, which is open for the press & cadidates
- TOI : BMC Members Explain They Have Inherited All Their Wealth : Jan 7, 2007 -The BMC, according to corporators themselves, offers plenty money-making opportunities
- TOI : How corporators spend, drain away your money : Jan 15, 2007 -Largest chunk of corporators’ funds-roughly Rs 99.3 crore-went into drainage projects
- Oh God! Is this my candidate! : Delia Maria : Jan 28, 2007 -Airport Road Mohalla Committee, Pune
- TOI : Mithi Can Decide How Votes Flow : Jan 24, 2007 -Residents of areas through which the Mithi flows show no particular preference for any candidate
- IE : BMC: Rebels play spoilers, margins set to dip : Jan 22, 2007 -There are still about 2,357 candidates in the fray for 227 seats.
- DNA : Come January, you will have your voter’s card delivered on the spot : Dec 8, 2006 -State prepares for a Rs60-crore exercise to issue election cards to all 6.6 crore voters
- TOI : Sena report card: B-minus, at best : Dec 23, 2006 -At the end of 5 yrs, BMC has about 50% of funds budgeted for infrastructure work lying unutilised
- Cybernoon : A website on the BMC poll that tells all : Jan 18, 2007 -www.mumbaibmcelections.com
- NDTV : BMC – ‘Criminal’ candidates in poll fray : Jan 17, 2007 -20 per cent of the 2676 candidates contesting the BMC elections this year have a criminal record.
- DNA : PIL shows flaws in BMC poll : Jan 18, 2007 -The seven days time according to the petitioners is insufficient for effective campaigning.
- IE : Largest ward, smallest number of voters : Jan 20, 2007 -Ward no’s. 154 and —55-now has around 27,000 voters from a population of over 50,000
- Cybernoon : Police, punters believe SS-BJP will return to BMC : Jan 20, 2007 -Sena-BJP would not find it difficult to lure the former loyalists back
- IBN : Glamour quotient in BMC polls : Jan 21, 2007 -The residents of Ward number 63 came together to field a consensus candidate
- Cybernoon : Candidates for BMC elections seek divine blessings : Jan 22, 2007 -A number of candidates bring home Ganesha during the Maghi Ganapati festival.
- TOI : Sena drops 58 corporators, Congress woos Marathis : Jan 16, 2007 -Congress members blamed city Congress chief to strike a deal with the NCP
- TOI : Crorepatis Beg For Your Vote : Jan 17, 2007 -The 3,586 candidates declared their assets in affidavits submitted to the election office
- DNA : On the fast track to growth : Jan 8, 2007 -Past few years have witnessed rapid improvement of the roads in Kandivali.
- DNA : Civic polls will make some, break some : Jan 12, 2007 -Civic polls are likely to change the fate of many politicians across party lines.
- TOI : Anti-quota group fields candidate : Jan 11, 2007 -Controversy over reservations is set to become an issue in the BMC polls.
- BMC Election Statistics
  - TOI : BMC Election Statistics : Feb 2, 2007
- News Stories on Party Manifestos
  - TOI : Expensive desalinated water for your toilets! : Promise Sena-BJP : Jan 23, 2007 -Party’s manifesto says that if voted back to power, they will set up plants to desalinate sea water
BMC Wards : News & Data
- Ward G (North) : Dadar’s lungs gasping for air : DNA : Jan 10, 2007 -Over 50,000 families are squeezed in 535 acres of Dharavi.
- Ward F (North) : Great Suburban Exodus : Jan 13, 2007 -Increasing traffic, mushrooming high-rises, narrower roads and piles of garbage are the problems
- Ward D : Road House Blues and Water Woes in a VIP Ward : Jan 29, 2007 -Traffic Jams, Bad Pavements And An Outdated Water And Drainage System Plague Residents
- Ward F (North) : Left Dumpstruck : -Matunga-Sion Residents Fear Health Woes Due To Poor Garbage Collection And Slums On Pipelines
- Ward K (East & West) : Unbridled growth, lack of space : IE : Jan 13, 2007 -You name a civic problem and the K East and K West wards-have it.
- Ward H : Too many people, too little space : IE : Jan 12, 2007 -Endless encroachments, crumbling infrastructure and booming development in Bandra, Khar & Santacruz
- Ward G (North & South) : Dharavi Redevelopment Project main issue : IE : Jan 11, 2007 -Planned development for Dharavi, traffic management and more water is required
- Ward P (North & South) : Malls Have Come, Now What About Some Water? : TOI : Jan 13, 2007 -Narrow, Traffic-Choked Roads & Dry Taps Plague Mumbai’s Mall Zone from Malad to Goregaon
- Ward H (West) : Unchecked Development Leaves Rubble in Paradise : TOI : -Malls proliferate as cottages vanish, high-rises replace bungalows
- Ward H (East) : Word ‘Flood’ Still Strikes Terror Here : Jan 25, 2007 -The main fear is in areas like Bandra, Khar & Santa Cruz East
- Ward A : Water shortage in Eden : TOI : Dec 25, 2006 -The only construction activity here is the redevelopment of old cessed buildings
- Ward R (North & Central) : People Here Wait for College and Speciality Hospital : TOI : Jan 10, 2007
- Ward R (South) : Tackling a Flood of People and Rain : TOI : Jan 18, 2007 -Kandivli Wants Better Infrastructure For Sprouting Townships & Improved Flood Control
- Ward K (West) : Juhu gets its beach back : HT : Jan 16, 2007 – Residents’ initiative has transformed the messy waterfront to a clean place to chill out
- Ward N : Booming development leaves infrastructure far behind : IE : Jan 16, 2007 -Vehicular movement in this area has increased manifold in the last two to three years
- Ward M (East- West) : Many flood-prone areas here : IE : Jan 15, 2007 -While M-West take up zero-garbage programmes M-East remains a hotch-potch of shanty towns
- Ward L : Utter absence of planning : IE : Jan 14, 2007 -There’s great anger everywhere in L Ward after the massive demolitions
- Ward K (East) : It’s hell on earth, say Andheri residents : Jan 15, 2007 -Water shortage is acute, as is traffic congestion.
- Ward K (West) : Sena-BJP leaders put off meet : Jan 11, 2007 -Ward that is largely made up of the Andheri (West) suburb has some of Mumbai’s worst infrastructure
Manifesto Suggestions of Citizens
- Formal Reply of NGO Council to MRCC Letter
  - Formal Reply of NGO Council to MRCC Letter
- Letter From MRCC (Mumbai Regional Congress Committee) Inviting Suggestions
  - Letter from MRCC Inviting Suggestions
Meetings / Events
- Jan 4, 2006 : Do attend meeting of Citizens, Resident Assoc. & NGOs reg. BMC elections
Party Manifestos
- Sena-BJP
  - Manifesto of Sena – BJP
Post-election Scenario
- MM : 100 Corporators in Dock for Forgery : May 8, 2007 -Cases have been filed against the corporators for allegedly submitting false affidavits.
- Your Elected BMC Corporators — posted by Dr. Leo Rebello (English)
- BMC elections – compilation of lessons learnt dt. 7-02-07
- Learnings from BMC Elections : Responses Recieved