Adv Local MLA and city BJP Prez Ashish Shelar opposes Salman’s luxury Hotel
Adv Local MLA and city BJP Prez Ashish Shelar opposes
Salman’s luxury Hotel
Salman Khan’s dream plan to come up with a luxury hotel in Bandra’s Carter Road has hit a major blockade.
Adv Local MLA City BJP Prez Ashish Shelar has come down heavily and opposes Salman Khan’s luxury hotel project citing privacy concerns and chaos in Bandra.
He aptly makes it clear that the BJP was for development and will not endorse any project that adversely impacts peace and privacy of people.
Shelar was interacting with FPJ and Navshakti Journalists amid a visit to FPJ House on Saturday.
As per Shelar the proposed project was approved by the erstwhile MVA government and an ex-corporator. The site of the proposed hotel was deliberately chosen to be close to the Bandra-Versova sea link.
Reportedly, the old structure
Starlet cooperative housing society was purchased by Salman Khan on prime Carter Road some years ago.
The idea then was to build a residential apartment but, later the plan was changed to erect a 19-year-old uber luxury. Apparently, the BMC’s building proposals department had also approved the plan for a hotel with enhanced floor space index.
Many wonder on what basis the conversion from residential to commercial use was done in what is predominantly a residential area. There was no public consultation and the local residents were shocked when they came to know that a hotel, which will entail huge vehicular traffic, is coming up in their midst.
Shelar also stated Bandra was not an ideal place for locating the Ferris wheel or Mumbai Eye. He said thousands of people will flock to Bandra with their cars and there will be utter chaos. He indicated that the sprawling Mumbai Port Trust area on the east coast of the city was an ideal place to locate the Ferris Wheel. He observed that Union minister Nitin Gadkari had proposed an ambitious and workable proposal to develop port trust land.”
Over the controversy on the development of a parking lot at Patwardhan ground and a metro station near Sadhu Vaswani garden, as per Shelar a final decision will be taken in consultation with local residents.
Replying to a question, Shelar said there was little chance of the BMC elections being held before October, 2023.
BJP will fulfil its goal of capturing the BMC in tandem with its allies in the NDA claiming that Mumbai will definitely have a BJP Mayor.
About the ruling BJP being unable to proceed against municipal commissioner I.S. Chahal, notwithstanding the severe strictures passed by CAG with regard to alleged corruption in several civic projects, Shelar quoted that his party was not against any individual, but against the system which breeds so much corruption.
On the Anti Corruption Bureau unable to get Chahal’s sanction for proceeding against several assistant commissioners, according to the BJP leader, sanction has been given in some cases, disclosing that the second part of the CAG report will come out soon and will unearth more corruption in the civic body.
Shelar said the Shiv Sena led by Uddhav Thackeray posed no threat to the BJP. What people need is development and BJP will win on a positive plank.
News input KV Raman
