Ahead of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Election 2026 on January 15, the city unit of the Indian National Congress (INC) on Sunday unveiled a dedicated manifesto aimed at the reviving the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking. Titled ‘BEST Revival: 9-Point Action Plan’, the document has been launched under the theme ‘Mission BEST Bachao’.

'Not a profit-making company': The manifesto pitches BEST as an essential public service rather than a profit-oriented entity and promises to restore it as a fully public, reliable and passenger-friendly transport system. It sharply criticises the current administrator-led regime and private contractors, blaming them for rising operational costs, declining service quality and what it describes as attempts to privatise the civic transport utility.