BMC Elections Tomorrow: Battle for Asia's Richest Civic Body

With just a day to go for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation elections, political temperatures in Mumbai have hit a peak. Asia’s richest civic body goes to polls on January 15 after a long gap, with results due on January 16. The battle has turned into a prestige fight between the BJP–Shinde Sena–NCP alliance and the reunited Thackeray brothers, with sharp personal attacks, allegations of appeasement, money distribution and institutional bias dominating the campaign—raising questions over whether real civic issues have been sidelined.