Key Points
Ahead of elections to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, both Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) and Maharashtras ruling alliance of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will hit the streets Saturday evening in an attempt to capture one of Maharashtras most crucial civic bodies...
The protest marches will see each side target the other for alleged graft in the BMC a body that both have ruled in the past...
On its part, the Shiv Sena (UBT) will highlight corruption on various projects undertaken by BMC the party has been claiming irregularities in the civic bodys road tender processes, ongoing Mumbai beautification project, and its decision to buy Rs 263-crore worth of street furniture for the city, among other things...
The BJP and Shinde-led Shiv Sena, meanwhile, plans to highlight the Enforcement Directorates (ED) ongoing probe into the alleged corruption in the various contracts awarded during the COVID-19 pandemic the alliance has dubbed its protest Chor machaye shor (which roughly translates into thief is making a racket), mocking the other protest...
On its part, the BJP-Sena alliance has released posters highlighting the alleged financial misappropriations in the BMC during COVID, when Uddhav was still CM...
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