MUMBAI, Nov. 25 -- Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, while discussing the city's underground tunnel network, said it would help decongest Mumbai in the next few years. He also spoke about generating new green spaces, and on the political front, announced that 40% of the tickets in the BMC election would be given to youngsters under 35. Fadnavis was participating in a conference organised by the India International Movement to Unite Nations (IIMUN) at Worli Dome on Monday. While elaborating on the parallel network of tunnels, he said that the Lion Gate-Chowpatty tunnel would be completed in three years while the Bandra Sea Link-BKC and BKC-domestic airport ones were being planned. "All these projects will help south Mumbai residents reach the airport in 15 minutes," he said. The CM held forth on his grand plans-making 50 km of the metro operational every year, converting all local trains into air-conditioned ones without increasing the fare, and introducing water taxis from Navi Mumbai Airport to the Gateway of India. When asked whether there should be a youth quota in elections, Fadnavis replied, "Instead of speaking about a quota, I will announce that our party will give 40% of tickets in the BMC election to youngsters below 35." Following up on this, he said that the BJP was planning to appoint two Gen Z youngsters per ward in Mumbai to monitor development works, significantly enough, "from across ideologies and without looking at their political affiliation". Asked about the government's efforts to safeguard Mumbai's green lungs, Fadnavis said that it had undertaken major projects like waste treatment plants to ensure that the sewage generated by 20 million people was not discharged raw into the sea. "The first such plant will soon become operational," he said. He also claimed that the BJP wanted to generate new open spaces. "We have designed the Dharavi Redevelopment Project in such a way that there will be no development on 30% of the land." Fadnavis said that the BJP joined hands with parties of different ideologies, as numbers were important in politics to push through the BJP's ideology....