Thousands 'apply' for Rs 54,000 houses in Powai

Updated On: 06 February, 2014 07:30 AM IST | | A Correspondent

<p>Thousands showed up at the Mantralaya gates on Tuesday and Wednesday, with duly filled ‘application forms’ for low-cost housing promised to the poor by the state in 1986</p>

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Thousands 'apply' for Rs 54,000 houses in Powai

Thousands showed up at the Mantralaya gates on Tuesday and Wednesday, with duly filled ‘application forms’ for low-cost housing in Powai. This was an innovative form of protest, a brainchild of the Maharashtra Democratic Front (MDF), led by Republican Party of India leader Prakash Ambedkar.

Women show the completed application forms that were distributed to them by the Maharashtra Democratic Front. Pics/Sayed Sameer Abedi