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In a motion of a imaginable strain wrong the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), Congress person Varsha Gaikwad connected Saturday (November 15, 2025) said, “The enactment is preparing to contention the upcoming polls to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) independently.”
Addressing a enactment meeting, Mumbai Congress president Gaikwad called connected enactment workers to resoluteness to "unfurl the Congress emblem successful the BMC".
"We indispensable guarantee the predetermination of Congress corporators. Prepare for each 227 seats," Ms. Gaikwad said. Elections to the BMC, the richest civic assemblage successful the country, are apt to beryllium held successful January 2026.
Ms. Gaikwad made the connection successful the beingness of elder leaders, including AICC wide caput Ramesh Chennithala and Maharashtra Congress president Harshwardhan Sapkal.
The Congress's basal to spell solo has travel amid the anticipation of Shiv Sena (UBT) main Uddhav Thackeray and his cousin, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) leader, Raj Thackeray, joining hands for the civic assemblage elections.
A conception of the Congress is averse to having Raj Thackeray successful an alliance, fixed his assertive basal against North Indian migrants.
Ms. Gaikwad said that earlier, erstwhile reporters asked Chennithala if the enactment would spell it unsocial successful the BMC polls, helium had maintained that specified decisions were near to the section units.
"We person conveyed to him [Chennithala] that Congress leaders and workers privation to spell alone, on with like-minded parties and groups," she said, adding that office-bearers person been briefed connected the organisational preparations.
The Lok Sabha MP urged enactment workers to deed the crushed for the adjacent 2 months and stay alert astir the voters' list. The Congress aligned with its long-time rival, Shiv Sena, successful 2019 to signifier the MVA, on with the NCP. The divided successful the Shiv Sena and NCP successful 2022 and 2023 saw their rival factions state with the ruling BJP.
In 2024, the Congress could lone negociate to get 2 of the six Lok Sabha seats successful Mumbai and 10 retired of 36 Assembly seats, with Shiv Sena (UBT) having an precocious manus successful the seat-sharing.
