With Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray all set to helm the state government, what needs to be seen is whether some of BMC's pending projects — property tax waiver for houses less than 500 square feet, reformation of the debt-ridden BEST, implementation of the Coastal Road project and nightlife policy — which are also some of Sena's pet projects, gets fast-tracked.

In the last municipal election in 2017, Sena had promised in its manifesto to waive off property tax for houses less than 500 square feet. Immediately after coming to power, Sena corporators approved the proposal in the general body meeting. It was then sent to the government's Urban Department. Though the state government issued a GR in April this year mentioning that a general tax had been waived off for houses up to 500 sq feet, it was later found that they had only cut the general component of the property tax, which is just 10-30 per cent. Now it's in Sena's hands to waive off the property tax before the end of the financial year.