On Monday (29 December) night in Bhandup, Mumbai, BEST bus hit many people while reversing. 4 people have died in this accident. The dead include three women and one man. 10 people are injured in this accident. The injured were taken to the hospital. Police and administration officials are present on the spot. At the same time, the driver was taken into custody.

According to the information, while reversing a BEST bus near Station Road in Bhandup (West), 14 passengers were hit, in which 4 lost their lives. The incident was reported to the Mumbai Fire Brigade (MFB) control room today (29 December) at around 10.05 pm.

Mumbai Fire Brigade, policemen, BEST staff at the spot

According to initial information, the bus allegedly hit the people standing behind while it was being reversed. The exact reasons for the incident are being ascertained. Emergency response teams including Mumbai Fire Brigade, policemen, BEST staff and 108 ambulance services were immediately sent to the spot.

4 people died in the accident- DCP

While giving information, Zone-7 DCP Hemraj Rajput said that till now a total of 4 people have been confirmed dead in the accident, while 10 people are injured. The injured were admitted to different hospitals for treatment. It is being told that an unknown woman (aged about 31 years) was brought dead to Rajawadi Hospital. Prashant Lad (51 years old, male) has also been admitted to the same hospital, whose condition is said to be critical.

Investigation into the cause of the accident continues

Whereas, M.T. Three people were brought dead to Aggarwal Hospital. 9 people injured in the accident are being treated here. As soon as information about the incident was received, relief and rescue work was immediately started by the administration.

Before the civic elections in Maharashtra, the results of the Best Employee Co-operative Credit Society elections are coming. For this, counting started at one o’clock at Wadala depot. The whole picture will be clear by evening. This election is special because for the first time Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray’s party have fielded candidates under the alliance.

MNS chief Raj Thackeray and Shiv Sena (UBT) President Uddhav Thackeray’s Best Union erected “Utkarsh panel”. It is mainly competed with with BJP MLA Prasad Lad’s “Shramik Panel”.

Did MNS-Shiv Sena (UBT) leader say?

An official said that there were a total of five panels in the election, one panel is also of Shashank Rao. A union with a union towards Shiv Sena led by Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde is also in the fray.

According to the news agency PTI, the Shiv Sena (UBT) and MNS leaders said on Monday (August 18) to fight together that the two leaders did not have much penetration in Best, but this election gave the two parties an opportunity to come together.

How many candidates?

Best members, workers, workers voted at 35 polling stations in the election of Best Employee Co-operative Credit Society. Utkarsh and the labor panel landed 21-21 candidates. Among them, Uddhav Thackeray Shiv Sena (UBT) had 18, Raj Thackeray’s MNS two and one candidate was from the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Association.

For the last 9 years, Thackeray’s Shiv Sena’s Best has been occupying the best, so it will be interesting to see if the Shiv Sena (UBT) will be able to maintain this power or not.

Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray were seen together on the political stage together after 20 years on 5 July. During this, Uddhav Thackeray announced to fight together in future. Recently, Shiv Sena (UBT) Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut had said that Thackeray brothers will fight together in Mumbai, Thane, Kalyan-Dombivali, Nashik.

There has been a political stir in Mumbai over the post of General Manager of Brihanmumbai Power Supplies and Transport Undertaking (Best). Actually, SVR After the retirement of Srinivas, two different departments issued orders to hand over additional charges to two different IAS officers for this post.

One order came from the city development department, which is under Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, while the other came from the General Administration Department, which comes under Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. The government had to clarify the situation regarding this contradiction.

What is the whole matter?

GM SVR of Best on 31 July 2025 Srinivas retired. After this, the General Administration Department had given him additional charge of the post on 5 February. After retirement, the need to appoint a new GM was revealed.

The Best Workers Union had warned retired personnel to take out the front for not getting gratuity. In this situation, the city development department started the process of handing over the charge of GM to an officer.

Two orders and confusion

Earlier, the process was started by the City Development Department that additional charge of GM would be assigned to Mrs. Ashwini Joshi. But in the meantime, on August 5, the General Administration Department issued an order to give this responsibility to IAS Ashish Sharma.

This led to two orders, one from the department under the Chief Minister and the other from the department under the Deputy Chief Minister, which led to a situation of administrative confusion.

Government clarification

In view of the seriousness of the situation, the Ministry of Urban Development made it clear that no order has been formally issued to hand over the charge of GM to Ashwini Joshi. Only the process was started, but the final decision was not taken. Now that the General Administration Department has appointed Ashish Sharma, the same order will be considered effective.

It became clear from this statement that the confusion between the two ministries arose only due to the parallel of the process.