When successive governments fail to resolve vexed issues, it raises questions over the efficiency of democratically elected governments. Today, one raises this issue with the Congress and NCP, which ruled the state for 15 years, as well as the new government run by the BJP, over the question of local body tax (LBT), which is crucial for the running of 26 municipal corporations of the state.

The introduction of LBT by replacing octroi has been pending since over a decade, and the government has failed to introduce a new system in place of octroi and convince civic bodies about it.