Mumbai Congress worried after 2 top leaders quit party — ‘unhappy with high command’

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Mumbai:Less than three months before the Lok Sabha elections, the Congress in Mumbai is in trouble with two senior leaders having left the party to join Maharashtras ruling coalition...

Former Maharashtra minister and MLA Baba Siddique Thursday resigned from the Congress saying he had certain compulsions that cant be revealed...

He will join the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Saturday, he said...

Mumbai Congress President Varsha Gaikwad, who took over the reins of the partys city unit in June last year, told ThePrint that she could not be blamed for the defections, and that she was making every attempt to ensure the rest of the flock stayed together.. This is not about me They are not leaving because of me, she said..

Congress leaders are now apprehensive that more might abandon the party, embarrassing the top leadership since Rahul Gandhis ongoing Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra is slated to end in Mumbai on 20 March...