Pagdi tenants across the city, especially from old buildings of South Mumbai, expressed displeasure over the government’s reluctance to file a reply in the Supreme Court within the stipulated time in a Maharashtra Rent Control Act matter. The tenants held a meeting on the matter called by the Pagdi Tenant`s Action Committee on Tuesday. Rahul Narwekar, an assembly speaker and a likely Lok Sabha election candidate of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) from South Mumbai attended the meeting and assured those present that he was with them and that the state government would file a reply by the time of the next hearing to prevent its rent control act from being overruled.

The Property Owners Association Vs State of Maharashtra and MHADA case will now probably be heard by mid-April 2024, by a nine-judge constitutional bench of the Supreme Court. The meeting with tenants residing in pagdi properties was held at Hindi Vidya Bhavan Global Academy at Marine Lines on Tuesday, regarding the future of the rent control legislation in Maharashtra. The hall with a capacity of 300 had people flowing out of it.