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A time aft the Congress logged its historically lowest tally successful the Mumbai civic polls, a chronic factionalism resurfaced connected Saturday (January 17, 2026), with a request being raised for the resignation of the metropolis portion president Varsha Gaikwad connected motivation grounds.
Mr. Gaikwad has travel nether occurrence aft the Congress’s tally tumbled to 24 from 31 seats it had won successful the 2017 elections to the 227-member Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
The Congress didn't state with Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) constituents successful the polls. It tied up with the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA), the RSP, and Republican Party of India (Gavai) to contention 152 seats. However, the allies drew a blank.
In the high-stakes elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wrested power of the BMC from Uddhav Thackeray, ending his family's three-decade-old dominance successful the cash-rich civic body.
The BJP won 89 seats, and Shiv Sena won 29. In the Opposition camp, Shiv Sena (UBT) managed 65, and MNS won six seats. The AIMIM bagged 8 seats, the NCP three, the Samajwadi Party two, and the NCP(SP) got conscionable 1 seat. Former Mumbai Congress president and MLC Bhai Jagtap demanded that Gaikwad discontinue connected motivation grounds.
"When candidates were selected, I was told that tickets were distributed based connected a survey. I didn't entity that time, but erstwhile I asked for the survey, it wasn't shown to me," helium told PTI Videos, stressing that the Congress's show was a humanities low.
