It has been 43 months since Mumbai’s municipal corporators vacated their offices in the country’s largest municipal authority — Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) —after the civic elections which was to be held in March 2022 got deferred following Supreme Court’s (SC) decision of scrapping the Other Backward Class (OBC) quota from local body elections.

Alongside this, for Mumbai , there was also an additional issue of reorganisation of the municipal ward boundaries, that led to the deferment of the civic polls.

This move left no room for political presence or public representation in the Mumbai civic body for almost four years now.

At the political front, Maharashtra has witnessed a series of political dramas with both the Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) witne

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