While this may seem like an illustration of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) nonpartisan approach, it’s certainly not creditable. On February 6, MiD DAY had reported (‘Crematorium records deaths in birth registers’) how city crematoriums are using birth registers, which have been provided to them by local ward offices in the absence of adequate notebooks, for cataloguing deaths.

Uddhav Thackeray performs final rites of Balasaheb at Shivaji Park on November 17, 2012