The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has asked for CCTV footage of the municipal commissioner’s office through an RTI query to the Security Department of the BMC, to prove their allegations of changes to electoral ward boundaries. The party members aim to build pressure on the Shiv Sena ruled BMC with their claim that the civic body wrongly made changes to the electoral ward boundaries in the draft submitted to the election commission last week.

The ward administration plan has been submitted to the State Election Commission for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections to be held in February 2022. The BJP has accused the Shiv Sena of changing the draft plans initially drawn by the Election Department of the BMC and submitting them. They have alleged that the plan breaks up BJP wards in a way that will help the Sena. BJP leaders have accused that this was done in connivance with the commissioner and an external private agency.