After the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), the Shiv Sena is the goal of Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole’s ire. The redrawing of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) boundaries forward of the approaching civic polls within the metropolis has emerged as a degree of friction between the 2 events, that are a part of the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance together with the NCP.
Patole, who final week attacked the NCP over its “betrayal” by putting a “behind-the-scene” cope with the BJP in a Zilla Parishad ballot, lashed out on the Uddhav Thackeray-led Sena on Wednesday over how the BMC ward delimitation was carried out and threatened to method the judiciary for recourse. “Be it in Mumbai or Pune, if some parties of the MVA draft the ward structure as per their convenience, then we will certainly approach the court on the issue,” the Congress chief mentioned.
Patole’s public outburst stems from a sense within the occasion that it was short-changed and its opinion not taken under consideration whereas endeavor the train to redraw the boundaries of the civic physique’s electoral wards. The common notion amongst most events is that the delimitation was carried out to spice up the prospects of Shiv Sena corporators.
Number of BMC wards elevated
In February, the BMC, then managed by the Shiv Sena, carried out the delimitation train and elevated the variety of electoral wards from 227 to 236 and altered the ward boundaries. Of the 9 new wards, three every are within the island metropolis, its western suburb, and the japanese suburb. As per the civic physique’s doc, within the metropolis, the E ward (Byculla, Madanpura), F-south (Parel, Seweree), and G-south (Worli, Mahalaxmi) have a brand new ward every.
In the western suburb, one ward every has been added to R-north (Dahisar), R-south (Kandivali), and Okay-east (Andheri, Jogeshwari) whereas within the japanese suburb, L ward (Kurla), N ward ( Ghatkopar, Vikhroli), and M-west (Chembur, Mahul) every have gotten a brand new ward. BMC officers mentioned the brand new electoral wards had been ready as per the inhabitants ratio.
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But the Congress fears that the delimitation will have an effect on the electoral wards of its corporators. In the 2017 civic polls, the occasion had 31 corporators in opposition to the Sena’s 84 and 82 of the BJP. The tally was decrease than the 52 corporators the occasion had 5 years earlier.
A senior Congress chief mentioned, on the situation of anonymity, that of the 45 wards which had been seen their boundaries change, 17 belong to the occasion. With the delimitation, the Sena would trigger long-term injury to the occasion, the purposeful added. Several Congress leaders in Mumbai are sad that regardless of being a part of the federal government the occasion has not been capable of do sufficient to create a good floor for itself forward of the BMC polls. “Nana speaks in the voice of a common Congressman,” mentioned state Congress common secretary Zakir Ahmed.
South Mumbai Congress president Pramod Mandrekar advised The Indian Express, “We are in a coalition authorities. When the reorganization of wards was carried out, we must always have been taken into confidence. Nana Patole is taking points confronted by Congressmen who’re getting a stepmotherly remedy,” he added.
Despite this help for Patole from a bit of the occasion, most Congress heavyweights have saved quiet on the problem as they’re eager on guaranteeing the graceful functioning of the MVA authorities. Sources within the Congress mentioned the occasion’s ministers don’t like Patole’s barbs as a result of repeated taunts and criticism might trigger bother within the ruling alliance.
Dismissing the occasion of these within the Congress who agree with Patole on the problem, Shiv Sena spokesperson Manisha Kayande mentioned, “I do not suppose the Congress has a lot stake in Mumbai. They ought to have raised objections or made options when the time was given.”
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
