Pratip Acharya is a journalist based in Mumbai and he reports and writes on urban governance, civic affairs, city politics and environment for the Indian Express (IE). Pratip started his career with the Times of India at Kolkata in 2014, following which, he relocated to Mumbai in 2016 and since then, he has worked with the English dailies, The Free Press Journal and Hindustan Times before joining IE. Some of the major assignments that Pratip has covered so far include, the Loksabha elections of 2014 and 2019, the West Bengal assembly elections of 2016, the Maharashtra assembly elections in 2019. Besides this, Pratip has done ground reporting during the covid-19, since the breakout of the pandemic in 2020
Last week, the BMC had sought legal opinion from its law department regarding permission sought by rival Sena factions to hold the rally at Shivaji Park.
In a letter issued to the Lalbaughcha Raja committee, the BMC's E ward office has stated that the stretch of road between Dr Babasaheb Road and TB Kadam Marg has been damaged.
