India, April 23 -- Pravin Darekar, legislative council member and top contender for the post of Mumbai BJP chief, has been accused of halting a welfare project in Kandivali funded by party lawmakers. Devang Dave, a member of BJP's state election election management committee who levelled the allegation, has urged for stern action against him.

In a letter to prime minister Narendra Modi, union home minister Amit Shah and key BJP leaders from Maharashtra, Dave said that he had been working tirelessly in ward number 25, covering Kandivali, for several years. Darekar had stalled beautification of the Shaheed Bhagat Singh garden in the ward by pressuring BMC officials, he alleged.

The work was started on the request of the local Rashtriya Sw...