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the status of Metro Lines 5,6,7,8 and 9
nowhere near complete, Fadnavis has
announced three new lines, i.e. Line 10
between Gaimukh-Shivaji Chowk (Mira
Road), the Wadala-CSMT Mumbai Met-
ro 11 Line and the Kalyan-Dombivali-
Taloja Metro 12 Line.
I want to ask the chief minister why
is he so desperate to hit the headlines
and promise development whereas
his work in the past four years has
only been embarrassing. The roads
have been dug up across the city for
constructing metro and with zero pro-
gress in the actual construction work,
Mumbaikars are spending hours on the
highly congested roads. They are not
being able to move. Mr Chief Minister,
is this something to be proud of or to be
ashamed of?
The Chief Minister of Maharashtra
has failed miserably in doing his job. As
he has been only pretending to “work
efficiently” for the past four years, there
is absolutely no room for the Mum-
baikars to even breathe let alone live
peacefully. I want to alert the people
of Mumbai and Maharashtra that Mr.
Chief Minister can land at their door-
step with the BJP’s book of tall promises
yet again asking for votes anytime soon.

Why are you upset with electronic
voting machines your demand to
replace EVMs with ballot papers
means you are questioning
credibility of EVMs ?
Yes, I am questioning the credibility of
EVMs now because it’s an open secret
that the BJP goons rigged the election
results in 2014 by hacking the EVMs
electronic voting machines... Congress
is not against using EVMs or Tech-
nology but it’s unfortunate that these
machines are being used for vested in-
terest by the ruling BJP. One more im-
portant thing, the Election Commission
is defending EVMs I strongly feel that it
has no right to do so if EVMs are being
used for manipulating the poll results.
Recently, we organised a protest de-
manding that they should be replaced
with ballot papers and will continue
with our demands.
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