Mumbai Congress Chief Bhai Jagtap Says Party To Go Solo In BMC Polls
Earlier, Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole had indicated on June 14 that the party would contest the next assembly elections alone and not as an ally of the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance
Mumbai: Mumbai Congress President Bhai Jagtap on Monday confirmed that the party will contest the BMC elections alone and not with the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance.
“From the first day of taking over as Mumbai Congress chief, I have been saying that Congress (BMC’s) will contest all the 227 seats alone. This will not be the first time. Between 1999 and 2014, we have contested from the Congress. NCP, Samajwadi Party, and RPI, but BMC fought the elections separately,” Jagtap said.
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Indicating an alternative angle to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s “slippery” remarks, Jagtap said the latter could have been to encourage his party. Jagtap said, “Uddhav Thackeray’s statement may be to encourage his party, as far as the upcoming BMC elections will go alone.”
His remarks came a day after CM Thackeray said people will “slip from slippers” who only talk about contesting elections alone without solving people’s problems. During a function organized on the foundation day of Shiv Sena on Saturday, Thackeray had attacked his allies without naming anyone.
The Chief Minister had said, “Some people are talking of going alone and contesting elections on their own. If they do this then people will beat them with slippers.
Earlier, Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole had indicated on June 14 that the party would contest the next assembly elections alone and not as an ally of the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance.
Patole had said, ‘Congress will fight the Maharashtra assembly elections alone. If the high command decides, I am ready to be the face of the CM.
However on Sunday Patole had said that the three-party MVA alliance, comprising the Shiv Sena, NCP, and Congress, was formed in Maharashtra for five years and it is not a permanent fixture. Staunch adversaries for long, the Shiv Sena and the Congress had banded together with the NCP to form the MVA government in Maharashtra after the Uddhav Thackeray-led party fell out with the BJP in 2019.
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