India, Aug. 7 -- A post usually shunned by IAs officers - the general manager of the distressed BEST undertaking - ended up with two officers at the helm, leaving the Mahayuti government with egg on its face and the target of jibes from the opposition.

The post of general manager of the Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST), an undertaking of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), which falls under the jurisdiction of the state urban development department (UDD), fell vacant on July 31, when SVR Srinivas retired.

On August 5, the UDD issued an order asking additional municipal commissioner Dr Ashwini Joshi to hold additional charge of the undertaking, which runs Mumbai's public bus service and supplies power to the...