The battle between Shiv Sena and BJP over Mumbai’s potholed roads has now become a free for all, with Congress and MNS too jumping into the fray, and quite dramatically at that.
The battle between Shiv Sena and BJP over Mumbai’s potholed roads has now become a free for all, with Congress and MNS too jumping into the fray, and quite dramatically at that. Congress MLA Nitesh Rane announced that following a tour of the city under the “Count Mumbai’s potholes programme” undertaken by his party leaders, they had encountered about 450 potholes as against BMC’s claims of there being only 66 potholes pending repairs. Mr Rane claimed that his party had clicked photographs of all potholes they came across.
He went to the extent of declaring that the party would hold an exhibition of all these photographs at the Press Club on Mahapalika Marg on July 12.
The exhibition, titled “Potholes in Mumbai or Mumbai in Potholes”, will be open to all Mumbaikars. Apparently, Congress has sent out invitations to chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, Sena president Uddhav Thackeray, and mayor of Mumbai, Snehal Ambekar.
Not one to be left behind, MNS too launched an agitation where the party declared it would perform shradh of the city’s roads, implying that the roads were in such poor condition that they were as good as dead and, as the ritual is performed for dead people, the party would perform the last rites of these roads. MNS alleged that the roads were in such a terrible condition owing to corruption in the civic body.
Meanwhile, Mayor Ambekar inspected potholes on Santa Cruz-Chembur Link Road (SCLR) on Saturday afternoon. She was accompanied Yashodhar Phanse and Trushna Vishwasrao.
