The Congress on Sunday staged  a protest against the Maharashtra government's decision to allot Mother Dairy's land in Kurla for rehabilitating ineligible slum-dwellers who will be displaced by the Dharavi redevelopment project.

City Congress president Varsha Gaikwad, who led the demonstration, targeted the state government's decision with a “surrender” barb, alleging that the opposition by local people was ignored. “The market value of this land is in the hundreds of crores, but it is being handed over to Adani at a nominal price,” she alleged.

The Maharashtra Cabinet last gave its nod to the revised terms and conditions for an 8.5-hectare plot of Mother Dairy in Kurla area meant to be used for rehabilitating ineligible slum-dwellers. According to the government, under the Dharavi redevelopment project, 8.5 lakh families have to be rehabilitated. Of these families, 5 lakh are eligible to be rehabilitated in Dharavi itself. The Kurla plot is among the spaces that will be used to rehabilitate the remaining 3.5 lakh families, it said.