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Conspicuous by absence in Mumbai election campaign: BMC elections
Delay in BMC elections hits the quality of everyday life in Mumbai. The fact that no political party is raising hell over this in their current campaigns speaks volumes.
In 2022, with the world just recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, it didn’t seem extraordinary when elections to the richest civic body, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) were postponed. Though the reasons for postponement were a case in the Supreme Court about OBC seats and an earlier delimitation exercise, any aberrations to the existing systems were acceptable in the backdrop of two ghastly COVID-19 waves and Omicron. But decisions that seemed fine at that point have outlived the concession. In Mumbai, as the city prepares for the state assembly elections, the elephant in the room is actually the BMC elections. Not to…
Performance report shows 5.3 below the average score of of Bangalore MLAs at 5.5 . Not an impressionable report. When the BBMP is controlled, admiinisterd and dominated absolutely by the BJP Corporators without let or hindrance by the decimitated Opposition Parties, the performance report of Basavangudi MLA in today’s TOI (30th October 2014) is in bad light. Performance should have been better in respect of cleanliness, garbage clearance and citizens’ amenities in the constituency (not building toilets and dharmic sabha halls in temples with MLA funds).