11 am: St Anthony’s High School in Vakola is in a flurry of activity since early morning. A space that was deserted not two days ago is bustling with people with a common purpose to vote. The campus is not yet crowded and everything seems to be going on systematically.Continue Reading
This morning in Vandre East, Trupti Sawant set out bravely on her last rally before voting day. Her husband had won the election from the same constituency in 2014 but he died the following year. Trupti came in as MLA through the ensuing by-election. This year she wasn’t given aContinue Reading
It was raining steadily this morning in Chandivali, as it had been all night. You could make out that people were reluctant to step out from their homes into the steady downpour. And for a change, while other parties were reluctant to be outside, Congress supporters had no qualms aboutContinue Reading
After waiting for almost three hours, the sitting MLA from Chandivali, Md. Arif (Naseem) Khan of the Congress Party, spoke briefly to Spice Enquirer. Khan spoke about his work in the past 20 years (in Kurla and now in Chandivali) and what else does he expect to do if heContinue Reading
Around 5:15 pm, the Congress, NCP and RPI Party members, allies in these elections, gathered with gusto in front of Hi-life mall near Santacruz station. The plan was to march in a rally towards Sukhanand, ending at Agripara in Khar. The Bandra West Constituency candidate Asif Zakaria was present inContinue Reading
The wave of the Maharashtra state assembly elections has all 36 constituencies busy in campaigning sprees, atleast when it comes to the BJP. For the truth is, in most of them, the Opposition is not even visible. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Vile Parle Assembly constituency. OnContinue Reading
The party started late, but supporters stayed on for the speech The mega rally to be addressed by the Prime Minister was supposed to start at 6 pm, but at 5.50 pm, this was the scene at Jio Gardens in BKC. And people were supposed to come from 1 pmContinue Reading
For Mohammed Shaikh, who has been driving his rickshaw for over a decade, the election is merely a formality. Money, according to him, can buy votes. He talked about other things as well, like unemployment, saying that even educated people were not getting jobs and hence, even they were willingContinue Reading
St. Anthony’s School in Kalina is at present an oasis of calm with no hint of the high-level activity that will take place here on Monday. No hint, that is, except for the seven make-shift polling stations, neatly constructed on the ground of the school. There is also a separateContinue Reading
The Chandivali seat of Mumbai North Central constituency has 28 candidates up against each other. Out of these 28, 4 belong to major parties. These 4 candidates are Md Arif (Naseem) Khan, the sitting MLA from Congress, Dilip Lande, a Shiv Sena Corporator, Sumeet Baraskar, from MNS and Siraj KhanContinue Reading