A burgeoning population, development and rehabilitation projects that strain existing infrastructure, pollution, intermittent power and water cuts and lack of proper footpaths, roads, open spaces and entertainment hubs are some of the many issues plaguing the Mulund Assembly constituency.

The constituency also has been in focus in the recent days due to residents angry against the influx and opposing Dharavi residents being rehabilitated in the east. While one proposed project involves handing over 64 acres of land to the Dharavi Redevelopment Project with 18 acres on the land of former octroi naka, another involves rehabilitation of slum dwellers on 46 acres of the old dumping ground and yet another one involves the construction of 7,439 tenements near Kelkar college for all project-affected people (PAP) across Mumbai.