India, Jan. 12 -- The last weekend before the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) elections saw large-scale political rallies, roadshows and public meetings held by nearly all major political parties, leading to logjams and bringing parts of the city to a standstill.

Campaigning by top leaders including chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, deputy chief ministers Ajit Pawar and Eknath Shinde, local MPs, and party candidates resulted in traffic snarls across arterial roads, inconveniencing and frustrating Punekars no end.

On Saturday, a rally organised at Shanipar Chowk by Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray/UBT) disrupted vehicular movement in the congested peth areas. The narrow roads in the locality witnessed bumper-to-bumper traffic for h...