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Congress, NCP ally to dislodge saffron combine from BMC
Wednesday January 11, 2012 12:37:56 PM,
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Mumbai: Posing a
potentially tough challenge to the ruling Shiv Sena-Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC),
the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) will ally
for the Feb 16 polls.
The decision was announced late Tuesday after hectic negotiations
between the two parties following NCP chief Sharad Pawar's Sunday
'ultimatum' to the Congress to finalise the alliance by Monday.
The Congress will contest 169 seats and the NCP 58 in the
227-strong BMC house -- the alliance materialising for the first
time since the formation of the NCP over a decade ago.
"We had attempted for an alliance in the two previous civic
elections but we succeeded only the third time," Maharashtra Chief
Minister Prithviraj Chavan of the Congress said after emerging
from the marathon meet.
"We have amicably agreed over the number and even the wards each
party will contest have been almost finalised," he added.
While 90 percent of the wards to be contested by both parties have
been decided and the remaining within a couple of days, Chavan
magnanimously declared that the Congress would adopt a 'flexible'
stand wherever required.
Claiming that the 'historic alliance' would help dislodge the Shiv
Sena-BJP combine, he said: "It will help end the bad governance in
the BMC for the past 17 years and we shall bring back the lost
glory of Mumbai."
Describing the Congress as 'an elder brother', NCP state president
Madhukar Pichhad revealed that Pawar had directed them "to try for
an alliance without stretching the number game too far".
Besides Chavan and Pichhad, other top leaders from both sides,
including Maharashtra Congress chief Manikrao Thakre, city
Congress chief Kripashankar Singh, NCP ministers Chhagan Bhujbal,
Jayant Patil, Sachin Ahir and city NCP chief Narendra Varma took
part in the deliberations.
Meanwhile, Shiv Sena-BJP-Republican Party of India (RPI),
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) and Samajwadi Party have also
finalised their plans and are busy selecting candidates for the
BMC elections.
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