Mumbai: The Congress on Monday released a ‘charge sheet’ against the two-decade-old rule of the Shiv Sena-BJP in the Mumbai civic body, which goes to the polls on February 21.
Party leader and MP Shashi Tharoor, at a press conference, said the BMC, which has an annual budget of ₹38,000 crore, is not efficiently managed by the Sena-BJP combine.
The saffron alliance, which had been voted to power four times, has no competence to run the civic administration, he said. “They have betrayed the people with their failure in governance. A budgetary expenditure of ₹1 lakh crore is unaudited. A sum of ₹28,000 crore had been spent on roads in the last 10 years, but this year there was 13 per cent rise in number of potholes as compared to the previous year.”
Mr. Tharoor said the ‘charge sheet’ highlights the civic body’s failures in issues relating to water, roads, garbage disposal, solid waste management, and running hospitals and schools.
Meanwhile, the Congress played down Samajwadi Party partriach Mulayam Singh Yadav’s non-endorsement of its alliance with the regional outfit in Uttar Pradesh and claimed the people in the poll-bound state are in favour of the tie-up.
