Reason: the voting percentage in the commercial capital during civic polls has been between 42-49% since 1992, show statistics. “Most candidates fielded by political parties in the civic polls are too local, have close ties with local builders and goons. They blame politicians for every civic problem but never cast their vote in civic polls.”Nevertheless, political parties expect higher turnout this time. This will result in higher turnout.”Nawab Malik, NCP leader also predicts a higher turnout though he cites a different reason. “Voting percentage was expected to go up this time but negative campaigns and verbal abuses by Shiv Sena and BJP leaders in the last two weeks have discouraged the people.”Increase in voting percentage will help BJP to score better than Sena, say observers.

Source: dna February 20, 2017 01:41 UTC