Environmentalist Anil Hebbar Koni, who works with Medha Patkar's team has now filed his nomination as an independent candidate from the Mumbai North East constituency. "I have come up with a model which advocates independent waste handling in each ward in the city," Koni said.

An advocate of decentralization of waste management in Mumbai, Koni said that his priority is to set up a waste management plan for the garbage mountains at Deonar and Kanjur Marg that cause diseases in the constituency.