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Congress says alliance with Sena conditional, limited to Maharashtra
According to sources, the Congress leadership is miffed with Sena’s repeated unsolicited opinions about its functioning. Sena’s Rajya Sabha MP and Saamana editor Sanjay Raut, had Saturday, taken a public dig at Congress’ lea-dership. December 28, 2020 2:38:51 am
Ashok Chavan.
In an indication of rising tensions within the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), the Congress on Sunday made it clear that its engagement with the Shiv Sena was conditional and limited to Maharashtra. Former chief minister and state PWD Minister Ashok Chavan said, “Our alliance in Maharashtra is based on a common minimum programme (C-MP) and limited to Maharashtra.”
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.