The Congress has demanded redrawing of the city’s civic wards, and redo their reservation, citing biased restructuring that favours the Shiv Sena. Party leader and former Union minister Milind Deora has written to Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis in this regard.

Deora has said that the 800 objections—both political and apolitical ones—were not taken into consideration by the then state government. “The letters need to be taken into account now. The new ward boundaries and quota benefits only the Sena. At least, 20 out of 30 wards the Congress won in 2017 have been restructured wrongly and caused a massive loss to the Congress. Reserving the opposition leader Ravi Raja’s ward and many others is an act that damages democratic process,” Deora wrote.