Jagtap moved the High Court seeking directions to BMC and State authorities to give permission to conduct a rally on the 137th foundation day of Congress party where Rahul Gandhi is to address the rally
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Storia Foods withdraws advertisement mocking Rahul, Sonia ANI | Updated: Apr 27, 2021 20:53 IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 27 (ANI): Storia Foods has decided to withdraw advertisement allegedly mocking Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi and stated that they had no political motive behind the advertisement campaign, Mumbai police sources said.
The sources also said that the Mumbai-based company did not file any complaint against vandalism at their office here during protest by Congress workers earlier in the day against the advertisement. They said the company has said that it was withdrawing the advertisement from all our platforms .
Congress workers held a protest earlier in the day and ransacked the office of Storia Foods in Mumbai over the company s recent advertisement.
Congress’s survival dilemma: Stay with Shiv Sena, or go solo in BMC polls
The Congress faces a dilemma in Mumbai, the city where it was founded in 1885. It realises it needs to stop the BJP from dislodging Thackeray’s Shiv Sena in the BMC. At the same time, it also has to ensure its own survival. Updated: December 22, 2020 8:51:34 am
Mumbai Congress chief Bhai Jagpat wants party to go it alone. (Express Photo)
The very day after he was appointed, Mumbai’s new Congress president Ashok (Bhai) Jagtap insisted that the party
should contest the 2022 civic elections solo. His remark has come days after Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s assertion that the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress alliance, Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), would fight together in all local body elections, including the Mumbai civic poll, and after the MVA defeated the BJP in the recent Legislative Council polls.
Cong should contest Mumbai civic elections alone: Ashok Jagtap
Former Maharashtra minister Naseem Khan, who has been newly named as the campaign committee head for the Mumbai polls, also echoed Jagtap’s opinion. Updated: December 21, 2020 1:08:25 am
Ruling out infighting, Jagtap, on Sunday, said that “his job as the captain of the Mumbai unit would be to keep the flock together.” (Twitter@BhaiJagtap1)
Setting the tone for the Congress for Mumbai civic elections, party’s newly appointed Mumbai unit chief, Ashok (Bhai) Jagtap, said on Sunday that the party should fight the polls independently.
“Individually and also as the president of the Mumbai Congress, I believe that we should contest on all the 227 seats (of the BMC),” he said, while speaking to reporters after offering prayers at the famous Khandoba temple in Pune’s Jejuri district.