India, Jan. 5 -- The BMC's D ward moved swiftly to remove several protest banners and posters put up by residents of Angrewadi Chawl in Khetwadi on Friday evening, highlighting the tension between citizens and the civic body over redevelopment delays. Manish Valanju, assistant commissioner of D ward, told HT that officials, with the help of the police, had taken down all the displays that tenants erected last week to announce their decision to boycott the upcoming BMC elections.

Chawl residents claim that the redevelopment of their extremely fragile building is being stalled by their default landlord LIC (Life Insurance Corporation of India) as well as MHADA. The chawl has been declared structurally weak and categorised as a C1 dangerous...