Kalyan citizen forum to field candidate for Assembly elections

Alert Citizens Forum (Jagruk Nagrik) has decided to contest Assembly polls. The forum will field Sajitha Nair, 37, a resident of Kalyan.

Published on: Sep 26, 2019, 01:02:47 IST

By Sajana Nambiar, Kalyan

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Alert Citizens Forum (Jagruk Nagrik) has decided to contest Assembly polls. The forum will field Sajitha Nair, 37, a resident of Kalyan.

The forum was found in 2017 after the citizens of Kalyan took up protest under the banner “No service no tax” against Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) in 2015.

“Being a professional and entrepreneur, who has been born and brought up in this city, I have been a part of various awareness movements to better the standard of life in the suburbs. But with my past experience as a citizen striving to improve facilities, it has become clear that being a part of the governance system is the need of the hour. My aim is to ensure my city gets infrastructure and is a safe, clean and travel-friendly city,” said Nair.

The forum is active in Kalyan has highlighted problems of poor waste management and bad roads.

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