In 2015 the INC passed a legislation in the state parliament requiring the abolition of the BBMP, and its reconstitution as multiple, separate municipal bodies. The government's rationale, as stated in the bill itself, is that the population of Bangalore is too large for a single corporation to administer. The bill recommends that the BBMP be split into three separate municipal corporations ("trifurcation"), but states the actual number to be specified by government notification at a later date. The bill has been strongly opposed by the opposition in the state parliament and a majority of the BBMP councillors. It has also been debated in the media. Commentators have noted that the bill takes place against the failure of municipal trifurcation in Delhi three years earlier.