India, April 2 -- Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray on Tuesday declared that his party would oppose the BMC's proposed garbage collection fee and would launch a campaign against it by involving citizens. "For the first time in history, people will be charged for garbage collection," he said. "The government has spent a lot of money on contractors, and the BMC is going to spend another Rs.3,000 crore on cleaning the dumping ground land for the Adani Group at the taxpayers' expense. This is why the garbage collection charge is being levied on residents of Mumbai. But we will oppose it."

The BMC on Monday proposed a user fee for the daily collection of solid waste from individual flats, for which residents will be charged a monthly f...