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With the Maharashtra municipal corporations canvass entering the last phase, Mahayuti confederation (BJP, Shiv Sena, and RPI) connected Sunday (January 11, 2026) unveiled the manifesto for Mumbai civic assemblage elections, promises 50% autobus fare concessions for women, an interest-free indebtedness up to ₹5 lakhs for women nether the Ladki Bahin scheme.
The Mahayuti also targets GenZ done its manifesto, providing internship programmes, Mumbai Digital Sakhi to bid women successful AI and coding courses and usage AI exertion to deport Bangladeshis.
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis emphasised AI exertion and integrated it into respective schemes and projects to execute transparency.
Citing the integration of AI successful BEST services, Mr. Fadanvis said, “We are reducing the quality involution to summation the transparency, utilizing AI integration. The AI integration volition besides beryllium done successful processing a bid and power system, particularly utilized during the monsoon successful Mumbai.”
“We are processing an AI instrumentality to place the Bangladeshi. We person been moving connected this for the past 3 months and achieved 60% relaibailty, soon we volition beryllium capable to place and deport the Bangladeshi’s from Mumbai,” Mr. Fadnavis added.
Housing agenda
All parties person focused connected the issues of lodging and redevelopment, targeting Marathi radical and committedness to support them successful Mumbai lone by providing affordable housing.
Criticising Shiv Sena (UBT) and its tenure of the past 25 years successful BMC, Shiv Sena main and lawman Chief Minister Eknath Shinde announced plans for promoting redevelopment, clump improvement of chawls, Occupancy Certificates (OC) for buildings, and ‘pagdi-free Mumbai’.
“We volition pave the mode for improvement by distributing PCs to 20,000 buildings that person been pending. Similar to Ghatkopar’s Ramabai lodging project, wherever 17,000 houses are built, the enactment for 17 different projects volition commencement successful the archetypal phase,” Mr. Shinde added.
The Chief Minister pointed retired that to bring transparency successful the assignment of developers for lodging projects, wherever MHADA volition person each the rights to marque decisions, show the developers and make a “viable” ecosystem for businesses successful Dharavi.
Mr. Shinde said, “In the adjacent year, Mumbai’s roads volition beryllium pothole-free.”
Transportation successful Mumbai
BJP aims to make the h2o proscription strategy for astatine slightest 200 nautical miles from the existing 85 nautical miles successful the MMR region. “Currently, RoRo and rider h2o boats person been a hit; we program to make 21 jetties, a sustainable h2o taxi that tin link the Gateway of India to Navi Mumbai airdrome and different routes successful the MMR region,” Mr. Fadnavis added.
On the railway front, Mahayuti offers to adhd 3 much coaches to existing trains, and for the metro plans to implicit the 427 KM of metro web successful the MMR region.
Mr. Shinde compared the Shiv Sena (UBT)’s promises successful the manifesto and highlighted that its counterpart has obscurity mentioned the commencement centenary of Bal Thackeray, saying, “Their manifesto is Ghotalanama (scam manifesto), having nary notation of Bal Thackeray, Hindutva, and Marathi Manoos.”
