India, Dec. 27 -- With the sewage-choked Mithi River as the backdrop, the Congress on Friday launched its campaign for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections, projecting the polluted water body as a symbol of alleged civic corruption and administrative collapse in the country's richest civic body.

The party also released a "charge sheet" against what it described as the "mega-corrupt" Mahayuti government, accusing it of failing to ensure transparency and accountability in the BMC, which has functioned without elected representatives for over three years.

Listing 13 points, the Congress dubbed the civic body the "Brasht Mahayuti Corporation" and blamed the ruling alliance-comprising the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Shiv Se...