Two veteran politicians — sitting MP Gajanan Kirtikar and Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam — have crossed swords from the Mumbai North West constituency, which saw a good turnout of 54 per cent voters exercising their franchise. We didn't even get time to eat, that's how long the queues were," said a staff manning a poll booth. At certain centres, the queues extended to nearly a kilometre long, and took voters an average of one hour to cast their votes. The constituency comprises Assembly segments of Jogeshwari, Goregaon, Andheri, Versova and Dindoshi, all of which have residential and commercial establishments in large numbers. In addition to a large number of Maharashtrian voters, there are also 3 lakh Muslim voters here, 3.5 lakh north Indians and 1.2 lakh south Indian voters.

Source: dna April 30, 2019 00:56 UTC