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80% of Mumbai Corporators may not retain their wards for BMC Elections 2017
- by Webdesk
- 02 Oct 2016
It is expected that around 80% of the present wards will be affected by the boundary redrawing done by the state election commission, which will drastically upset the calculations of political parties and many sitting corporators.
The BMC will be announcing the reservations and the new wards formation, sometime tomorrow. According to sources, the number of wards will remain the same i.e. 227. However, their boundaries will be redrawn in such a manner that it will affect 80% of them. Moreover, with the increase in the scheduled caste (SC) population, the number of wards reserved for SC candidates has risen from 11 to 15 (See the wards numbers which were reserved in 2012).
This means that approximately 80% of the existing corporators may not retain their wards and their voter base, which they have nurtured in the past five years.
Civic officials said that only about 13 to 15 wards, mainly in the suburbs have retained their 100% existing area, around 20 to 25 wards will see 80% of the existing area being changed, while the remaining will see a change of about 40% in their existing area.
This will be a challenge for the political parties. For example, if a major portion of ward no. 1 has been to shifted to ward no. 2, the current corporator of ward no. 1 will have to contest from ward no. 2 and consequently the current corporator of ward no. 2 will want his seat to be retained.
This scenario will be worse in case of SC reservations. For instance, if an SC ward is redrawn and a major population is moved to an existing non-SC ward, the existing non-SC ward will be automatically de-reserved, said civic officials.
Looks like quite a task ahead for the political bigwigs post Monday
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