While the restructuring of wards has added only nine electoral wards, the boundaries of almost 75 per cent of them have changed. Many corporators allege that the wards are restructured in such a way that the ruling party may secure seats by a large margin. In the last election, there were at least 26 seats where the margin between the winning candidate and the closest opponent was less than 1,000 votes. 

The BMC published the draft of 236 wards on February 1, and today is the last day to submit suggestions, objections regarding them. The objections have to be submitted at ward levels and the number of objections may cross 500 on the last day. The main objections are non-adherence to natural boundaries, like roads, nullah, railway line, etc., or that the electoral wards are not aligned to the administrative wards.