It seems the BJP has finally woken up to the fact that the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) standing committee has decided to hand over the contract of setting up a waste-to-energy plant at Deonar dumping ground to the second lowest bidder — Suez project. Objecting to the move, the party has written a letter to municipal commissioner Pravin Pardeshi. This comes two days after the decision was taken at the standing committee meeting, where some BJP corporators were present. They had not opposed the decision then.

The standing committee had scrapped the name of the lowest bidder — M/s Chennai MSW company — alleging that the civic body had not followed a proper tendering process. This company had projected a cost of '1,020 crore while Suez project had quoted '1,291 crore. After discussing the matter for over an hour, standing committee chairman Yashwant Jadhav ordered to award the contract to the second-lowest bidder with support from corporators across party lines. While some of the BJP corporators had left before the discussion, some of them who were present did not oppose it.