Mumbai, June 15 (Reporter) Mumbai Congress chief Varsha Gaikwad on Sunday called for a detailed white paper on the decisions and functioning of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) during the tenure of the incumbent Mahayuti government in Maharashtra. The Mahayuti coalition, comprising the BJP, Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena, and Ajit Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party, jas been governing Maharashtra since June 2022.. Gaikwad condemned the BMC for rampant corruption affecting essential services such as road maintenance, sewer cleaning, healthcare, and education. She highlighted that the BMC has been under an administrative setup for the last three years due to the absence of local body elections. She urged the state government to publish a white paper covering the BMC’s activities till 2025, pointing out that investigations by the Enforcement Directorate and Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Bureau have only addressed issues up to 2022. During recent visits to the Deonar dumping ground and Bhabha Hospital, Gaikwad observed severe deficiencies in basic infrastructure and waste management. She accused the BMC of misappropriating funds, likening their use to party finances, with money being diverted to intermediaries and contractors. Discussing the upcoming civic elections likely scheduled for later this year, Gaikwad said the Congress continues to highlight public grievances and that alliance decisions will be made by the party’s central leadership. The Congress is part of the opposition alliance Maha Vikas Aghadi, alongside Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena (UBT) and Sharad Pawar’s NCP (SP). Thackeray’s unified Shiv Sena controlled the BMC until early 2022, after which the corporators’ term ended, leaving civic polls overdue since then...////...