"Our ward earlier had fewer Cuffe Parade highrises and more slum pockets. However, with delimitation the slum pockets have reduced and more towers have become part of the ward," said Balakrishnan. Makrand and Harshita were planning to contest as citizens' corporators before they decided to join the BJP. BM Chaturvedi, vice-chairman of Cuffe Parade Residents Association (CPRA) meanwhile said that they have had a meet your candidate interaction for their members recently so that they could know who were the contestants in fray. His sister-in-law, Sujata Sanap, is contesting from ward 225, the seat from where Ganesh Sanap won last time round.

Source: Times of India February 19, 2017 20:16 UTC