Adani's 3 billion dollar Dharavi project: The landslide victory of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde) alliance in Maharashtra has given a reprieve to the billionaire Gautam Adani-led group's $3 billion Dharavi project, which is being redeveloped as a 'world-class' district in Mumbai. Opposition party Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (Uttar Pradesh) had promised to take back all the land given to the Adani group for redevelopment of Asia's largest slum and completely cancel the project if it came to power.

For Adani, who is facing bribery charges in a US court, the cancellation of his pet Dharavi project would have been a big blow. These worries have now been put to rest as the BJP and its allies Shiv Sena and the Nationalist Congress Party factions led by Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar won more than three-fourths of the 288 seats in the Maharashtra assembly, according to election results.

Adani plans to transform 620 acres of prime land, about three-fourths the size of New York's Central Park, into a spectacular urban hub. Around 700,000 people living in shanty towns with open sewers and shared toilets in a densely populated slum near Mumbai's international airport are to be given free flats of up to 350 sq ft.

The redevelopment issue had become politically heated as the opposition alleged that the group received undue favours from the state government awarding the contract. The group has denied benefiting from government favouritism.

Congress leadefavoritismr of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi has repeatedly raised the issue of the Dharavi redevelopment project and accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party BJP of 'enriching friends like Adani'. Supporters of the project in the ruling party say the project is set to become a global model for slum redevelopment.

Dharavi has a population of about 1 million people, but only about 7 lakh were considered eligible. As per the resident definition, there must be proof of living in the area before January 1, 2000.

The rest will get homes in other areas of the city. This proposal was opposed by some locals because they want no resident or business owner to be rendered homeless.