Politicians in the city seem to be the very poster boys for piety, with their faces gracing huge posters and hoardings during religious festivals every year. However, the BMC’s ban on political posters this year seems to have brought their festive fervour down several notches not guaranteed the publicity that their donations will generate in the form of posters and banners, they have decided not to cough up the cash to many of the mandals they would earlier patronise.

As the civic agency has been cracking down on posters and banners that hitherto lined every nook and corner of the city, smaller mandals claimed that funds by local politicians or corporators who need publicity have dried up. Representational pic