Thane residents have been complaining about uncollected garbage accumulating in lanes and bylanes over the past few days, which is responsible for a foul stench. Irate with the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) for, allegedly, not collecting the waste, local political workers—including Suhas Desai, the Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar (NCP-SP) city head—dumped trash outside the civic body’s headquarters as a show of protest. However, downplaying the issue, TMC officials claimed that they had already collected 11,000 tonnes of waste and were in the process of setting up two new refuse treatment plants. They added that the issue would be sorted out soon.

Desai said, “The corporation has not succeeded in solving waste management issues. If this problem is not solved, I will throw garbage on each floor of the TMC building.”