THE Shiv Sena (UBT) and MNS have released theirmanifesto for the Thane Municipal Corporation polls, pledging majorreforms in the city’s infrastructure, healthcare, and education sectors, while criticising the performance of the ruling Shiv Sena led by Deputy CM Eknath Shinde. Talking to reporters after unveiling the document on Monday for the January 15 TMC polls,Sena (UBT) leader and former MP Rajan Vichare alleged that 60 percent of the work promised in the 2017 manifesto remained incomplete.

 

In 2017, the Shiv Sena, then undivided, came to power in the TMC.The latest manifesto of the Opposition Sena (UBT) and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) alliance prioritises solving Thane’s crippling traffic congestion by promising that new roads will be built using international technology with a 15- year guarantee, backed by heavy fines and blacklisting for failing contractors. It has also said that connectivity projects such as the Gaimukh to Saket-Kharegaon Coastal Road, theThane-Borivali subway, and a new bridge over the creek between Kopri and Patni Road would be accelerated. Additionally, the alliance plans to complete service roads along the city’s arterial Ghodbunder Road and construct new parking plazas to ease the burden on commuters.