A day after Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray's visit to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), Ashwini Joshi has been transferred as the director of Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan within eight months of taking charge as additional municipal commissioner (AMC) of the BMC. Insiders said the CM might have transferred the high-profile bureaucrat, supposedly close to the earlier dispensation in Mantralaya, because the Sena corporators had planned to move a no-confidence motion against Joshi.

"Suresh Kakani, chief of Maharashtra airports development authority, who has worked very closely with the earlier Congress and NCP governments, has replaced Joshi. She had been working as commissioner of state excise before being shifted to project director of Mumbai district AIDS control society. She was considered very influential in the previous regime. Other two additional commissioners have been with the civic corporation for over three years but it was her turn to go first as she fell out of ruling party's favour despite being an efficient babu," a BMC official said.