India, Dec. 10 -- Around 30,000 to 40,000 residents living in approximately 200 buildings in Juhu, many of which built roughly 50 years ago, and positioned close to the military wireless transmission station, have threatened to boycott the upcoming municipal elections. Their grouse is that a decades-long notification by the military has impeded their fight for redevelopment.

Over the years, the residents, under the aegis of Juhu Wireless Affected Residents (JWAR), have been fighting hard to save their homes and protect their future. As the military wireless transmission station is located inside the campus of Army Officers Institute on the Juhu Tara Road, 500 yards from the buildings, height restrictions were decreed.

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