Sunday, May 17, 2009

Mumbai General Election 2009 results

Time for the new Central Government formation is going on in Delhi.

As for the Mumbai North East Constituency the results were really surprising a very closely fought, like I had mentioned one couldn't rule out the possibility of surprise winner.

So the results are as under

Candidate Party Votes Total Votes

Sanjay Dina Patil
(Winner)
NCP 213505 654870
Kirit Somaiya BJP 210572 654870
Shishir Shinde MNS 195148 654870

Sanjay Dina Patil is now the new Member of Parliament (MP) representative from Ghatkopar area.

The following is a quote from Mumbai Mirror .

NCP MLA Sanjay Patil scored a surprise win in a closely fought contest against the BJP’s Kirit Somaiya and MNS’s Shishir Shinde.

“It does not matter whether I won by a single vote or a one lakh margin. I have won and will work for the entire constituency. This is the victory of the Congress-NCP-RPI alliance. It isn’t my individual victory. We were expecting to win in any case,” said Patil, beaming with pride.

“The constituency faces infrastructure problems because of the rising population. Raging issues include load shedding and water shortage in Shivaji Nagar, as well as problems with the dumping ground. I will address all these issues,” he said.

Meanwhile, his opponent Somaiya chose to stay away from the counting booth right from the beginning, probably anticipating what was to come.

Even after the results were declared, Somaiya did not speak to the media. "

# Important to note is the highlighting of the point of the garabge dump at Deonar, which has now become a very big health hazard issue for the local area.

Hope his support will help us to take this issue, what with the High Court which has given an order whereby the BMC has been asked to take several mesaures to see that the Deonar garbage dump is propeely mainatined and the burning of the waste is not done and also to look for alternative site as the Deonar Garnage Dumping has reached its saturating point and its almost upto the height of 5 floors.