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The road outside “Matoshree”, Mr Thackeray’s bungalow in Kalanagar colony in suburban Bandra, was under knee-deep water.
The Sena has been ruling in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the country’s richest civic body, for over two decades.
But as rains threw the life in Mumbai out of gear, crippling rail, road and air traffic, the civic body and the Sena came in for flak, especially because the BMC officials had assured that there would be no waterlogging this monsoon.
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“Karun Dakhavla” was the Sena’s campaign slogan before a civic election a few years ago. According to the India Meteorological Department, the city witnessed the highest rainfall — 375.2 mm –in the 24-hour period before 8.30 am Tuesday since the July 26, 2005, deluge.