Mumbai:
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation or BMC elections are likely to be announced soon. While the elections cater to the Mumbai city and its suburbs, the politics, the money, the campaigns and the political messaging around the elections make it a national affair.
Maharashtra is holding local body elections after three years and the most closely watched one is the BMC election. Local elections were held last in 2017 to select members of municipal councils, nagar panchayats, and municipal corporations.
The elections were due in 2022. But issues over ward delimitation and reservation delayed it. In September this year, the Supreme Court said local body elections have to be completed by the January 31.The last BMC budget estimated the expenditure for this financial year to be almost Rs 75,000 crore. This amount is nearly four times that of the civic body in Bengaluru which spends only around Rs 20,000 crore annually. The massive budget earns BMC the reputation of being one of the richest civic bodies in Asia.
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