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BJP manifesto

Thehas promised to bring Right to Municipal Services Act if elected in the BMC on the lines of Right to Services Act introduced by the state government in 2015. Under which various municipal services such as building permission, birth and death certificate and other services will be delivered in time bound manner and citizens will be given right to prosecute eroding officials who fail to deliver services in time.All these promises were made in BJP’s manifesto which was released by state’s chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday.Ashish Shelar BJP’s city unit chief and legislator said, BJP’s manifesto stays committed to promise of bringing transparency and accountability in BMC administration.Shelar further said, “The manifesto was an answer to those who were asking meaning of transparency, we have made manifesto by taking into account thousands of suggestions, we received through email and Whatsapp and it reflects aspirations of city’s people.”Taunting Sena, Shelar said, “If BJP comes to power all important decision regarding BMC will be taken from BMC’s headquarter and not from some politicians home. A clear reference to Sena party president Uddhav Thackeray’s homein western suburb ofThepromises not levy street tax till the time Mumbai’s roads are made pothole free and freeze water benefit tax at current level for next five years. It also promises not to levy sewerage benefit tax in those areas where there is no sewerage discharge facility.The manifesto talks about putting an end to contractor-politician-bureaucrat nexus and end practice of cartalisation by few contractors who dominate all contracts of BMC such as road, garbage disposal, contracts related to sewerage operations etc. and slap stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) on them for hatching criminal conspiracy to provide bad services to BMC if they fail to deliver.The manifesto promises an inquiry by a retired judge into all public-private partnership contracts that the BMC has awarded in the last twenty years. “These contracts are worth more than Rs. 20,000 crore and involve many assets of the BMC like hospitals, playgrounds, community halls etc,” Shelar said.Shelar also said, suggestion will be invited from people on how to utilise 12859 hectares of natural lands of Mumbai which are in form of ponds, wetlands, mangroves and forests and this accounts nearly 30% of Mumbai’s land, he said.