Mumbai: With BMC polls looming, the Opposition attacked the BJP and deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde for the chaos in the city after Monday’s heavy downpour.SS (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray pointed out that the civic corporation was being run by an administrator who was directly under the control of the CM and deputy CM as local body polls had not been held.“The BMC is being run by the chief minister’s office and the urban development department (led by Shinde) because no polls have been held. The rains have revealed the BJP’s corruption. The city cannot trust the BJP because then the state of the Gokhale bridge will be repeated across the city,” he alleged.“Shinde lied when he said Mumbai would be pot-hole free in two years. He only filled the holes in his own pockets,” Thackeray said. “This is not the first spell of rain this season. We have been saying for the last two months that nullah safai has not been done properly,” he said.Meanwhile, Mumbai Congress chief Varsha Gaikwad said on X, “After the first rain, Mumbai has come to a standstill. It has been held to ransom by this corrupt regime and its contractor friends.”NCP-SP MLA Jitendra Awhad said, “When his (Uddhav) party was in power, some of the leaders who are now in the ruling party used to cry hoarse questioning Thackeray’s absence during water logging in Mumbai. Why have they gone silent now?”State culture minister Ashish Shelar from the BJP, hit back at the SS (UBT) saying the Thackeray-led Sena had been in power in the BMC for decades and established a nexus with corrupt contractors.Shelar said Thackeray was angry because the Mahayuti govt had cracked down on fixers and the contractor cartel. Aaditya Thackeray was “enjoying in a foreign country” when members of the government were checking nullahs, he added.“For 25 years, UBT Sena and BMC contractors looted Mumbai. They looted Rs 3 lakh crores spent by the BMC on Mumbai roads. The UBT Sena did not complete BRIMSTOWAD work to prevent Mumbai from flooding,” Shelar said on X.Meanwhile, Shinde and state disaster management minister Girish Mahajan visited the BMC headquarters to assess the situation.Defending BMC’s performance, Shinde said the monsoon usually sets in after June 10 in the city. The early onset brought over 250 mm of rainfall in a single day—five times the expected daily average—resembling a cloudburst.“This led to major disruptions across the city. Although suburban rail services have resumed, BEST buses must be deployed at key railway stations in case of further interruptions. Water logging in low-lying areas has been addressed and the BMC has been instructed to keep these pumps fully operational,” he said.(With inputs from Richa Pinto and Manoj Badgeri)