Opposition leader Ajit Pawar has questioned Chief Minister Eknath Shinde over the various works, especially beautification jobs being undertaken by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). He alleged that the government was using its power to influence the administrator to get the jobs done in the absence of elected representatives.

According to Pawar, the civic and local body elections should be held urgently, and the government’s interference in these bodies stopped immediately. He said it amounted to corruption to start works worth hundreds of crores of rupees without proposals and approval of elected representatives. He asked that the CM’s publicity blitzkrieg, which was being paid for by civic bodies like BMC, be stopped.