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While it was the ruling Bharatiya Janata Partys (BJP) aim to take control of the cash-rich Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar on Sunday said that surveys showed that his ally, the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) was poised to get more seats in the upcoming BMC election...
Speaking in Nagpur during a two-day NCP conclave, Mr. Pawar, the Leader of the Opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly said there was a sympathy for the Sena (UBT) faction in Mumbai city due to the manner in which former Chief Minister Uddhav Thackerays tripartite Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government (of the NCP, the Congress and Mr. Thackerays Sena faction) was toppled after the present CM and rebel Sena leader Eknath Shindes intra-party revolt in June last year...
While the Sena under the Thackerays has held absolute sway over the Mumbai civic body for two decades, the BJP riding high on the Narendra Modi wave had rattled its former ally when it snared 82 of the total 227 seats in the 2017 BMC poll, second only to the Senas tally of 84 seats..
The BMC poll, pending for over a year, is said to be a dress rehearsal to determine the strengths of the Shinde and Thackeray camps as well as the ruling BJP-Shinde faction and the Opposition MVA ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha and State Assembly elections...
Mr. Pawar said that while the NCP was not strong in Mumbai city, the party had proposed to Uddhav Thackeray about fighting jointly against the BJP-Shinde-led Sena faction...
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