Mumbai Municipal Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal has directed civic officials to remove political banners and hoardings from vaccination centres. The BMC had received complaints about this material with claims about somebody or the other instrumental in making this facility available, so on and so forth.

This newspaper had earlier shone the spotlight on the one-upmanship among political leaders about the vaccination centres. The vaccine may be politicised at the national and international level, vaccination centres are being politicised at a local level with representatives smarting at being left out of openings, fighting about who should take credit for a facility.