After putting several projects on track, the government led by Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena and the BJP has taken steps to ensure other backward class (OBC) quota in the polls to the local self-government bodies. The ward boundaries have been finalised, draft electoral rolls published and constitutional political reservations decided.

The Supreme Court had allowed the state election commission (SEC) to delay elections in the cities affected the worst during the monsoon, and continue with the normal schedule in others. Mumbai, Thane and most cities in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region are likely to have polls only after the rains recede.