(Express Photo by Amit Chakravarty) People queue up to vote for BMC polls. (Express Photo by Amit Chakravarty)Apart from Mumbai and Pune, eight municipal corporations in Maharashtra are contesting in polls today. Almost 6,000 candidates will fight for the corporations in Thane, Ulhasnagar, Nashik, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Solapur, Akola, Amravati and Nagpur. According to the schedule, polling began in all the cities voting for their civic bodies at 7.30 am. The Congress seems to be in a spot of bother in Amravati and Solapur.

Source: Indian Express February 21, 2017 03:22 UTC