On March 8, 2024, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will complete two years under an administrative rule. It is the longest period in the history of the BMC, the richest civic body in the country, to run without elected representatives.

Since the five-year tenure of the elected corporators ended in March 2022, all the committees that clear the proposals, such as the standing committee, which has members from all parties, also became defunct. Instead of holding municipal elections, BMC was put under administrative rule under Section 54 of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act 1888. Municipal Commissioner, Iqbal Singh Chahal became the sole decision maker at the BMC, including sanctioning proposals and allocating funds.