Even as the country's financial capital Mumbai reels under the impact of heavy rains, Shiv Sena, the party that governs the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, on Wednesday complimented the civic body for ensuring that the situation did not “go out of hand”.
Shiv Sena has been ruling the cash-rich Mumbai civic body for the last over two decades.
The Sena, in an editorial in the party mouthpiece Saamana said,
The BMC’s preparedness to tackle the natural calamity ensured that the situation did not go out of hand. The civic body should be complimented for this. Even after heavy rains, no big untoward incident has taken place. Mumbai and Maharashtra have always received the blessings of Ganpati. We believe that God will ease this trouble as well.
It said the heavy downpour reminded the megapolis of the cloudburst on 26 July, 2005, when there was about 950 mm rainfall in 24 hours.
“Even the IMD on Monday said the rainfall was more than their expectations. The sun was not visible throughout the day and the high tide added to the city’s woes. Yet, Mumbai’s spirit won over the natural calamity,” read the editorial in Saamana.
Torrential rains pounded the metropolis throughout the day on Tuesday. The city gauged a whopping 298 mm of rainfall, the highest in a day in August since 1997.
Three persons, including two children, were yesterday killed in separate house collapses in suburban Vikroli in the wake of torrential rains that lashed the megapolis, police had said.
The city and its suburbs virtually have a public holiday today with Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis advising people to stay back home unless there is an emergency.
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