New Delhi, Jan. 15 -- Over four million commuters including students were badly hit as the strike by over 20,000 employees of the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST), the lifeline of the city, entered the seventh day here on Monday.
Amidst moves to "privatise" BEST - which supplies electricity to south Mumbai and also runs the public bus services catering to commuters in Mumbai, Mumbai suburbs, Thane and Raigad - the ruling Shiv Sena and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), worried over its political repercussions, have been struggling to bring the buses back on the roads.
While the opposition Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party have squarely blamed the Sena-BJP for the developments, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena has threatened ...