The bigger picture though is not about who is doing what and which party is guilty about this that or the other. It is that nobody, affiliated to any party should be allowed to use the city’s walls and lamp posts, electric poles as free publicity billboards.

An activist rightly pointed out that on the one hand, there are efforts on to beautify the city. 

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Whether one agrees with the method or not, the intent is to beautify Mumbai.  

It does seem ironical and in fact counterproductive that when Mumbai is looking to get spruced up and better looking, we see an explosion of these posters and graffiti. We may see this even more as elections draw closer, and the campaigning nears hysteria. It has been years and there has still not been any permanent solution to what is a fairly simple situation. People who are plastering the walls with illegal posters and spraying graffiti need to be penalised and fined. What makes this tricky is that workers of the ruling party and even workers from robust opposition are doing so. Those who should be leading by example as in fact, doing the opposite, setting a bad  example of their own.  Clean up the city and first point the broom at yourselves.