India, Dec. 25 -- MMRDA's plan to partially open the two metro routes of 2B (Mandale-Diamond Garden) and 9 (Dahisar East-Kashigaon) with political fanfare on December 25 is off. These two lines are now likely to open less conspicuously days ahead of January 15, the date of the BMC polls.

For the last two months, MMRDA officials as well as the state's political top brass, expecting the electoral code of conduct to be announced by December-end, have been pushing for the two lines to be inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi. However, a go-ahead from the Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety (CMRS) is still awaited.

A source said that for the past three weeks, the CMRS had been visiting the metro lines for inspections and had issued certain points fo...