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.
Congress picks Marathi face to head MRCC but does a balancing act
The new organisational model is also being seen as the party s attempt to rid factionalism within the party in the run-up to the 2022 Mumbai civic polls. It is also an attempt to get the caste and community balance right ahead of the civic polls. Updated: December 20, 2020 8:06:50 am
Ashok (Bhai) Jagtap. (Twittter@BhaiJagtap1)
A faction-ridden Congress on Saturday decided not to project a single face ahead of the crucial 2022 civic polls to lead the party in Mumbai.
While naming sitting party legislator Ashok (Bhai) Jagtap, a Marathi face, as the president of the Mumbai Regional Congress Committee (MRCC) on Saturday, the All India Congress Committee appointed former Mumbai Youth Congress president and ex-legislator Charan Singh Sapra as the working president of the Mumbai unit.