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BMC battleground: Congress makes it easy for Shiv Sena, to field mayoral candidate

Congress finally took a stand, on Thursday, of fielding a mayoral candidate amidst strong speculations that the party would give direct or indirect support to the Shiv Sena in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).

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Congress finally took a stand, on Thursday, of fielding a mayoral candidate amidst strong speculations that the party would give direct or indirect support to the Shiv Sena in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).

With this, chances of winning Shiv Sena's mayoral candidate increases by manifolds if the BJP also decides to field its own candidate.

Mumbai Congress president Sanjay Nirupam said that the party respects the mandate given by Mumbai voters to sit in opposition benches. Nirupam said, “The party has chose to sit in opposition benches respecting the mandate given by the people of Mumbai and will field Mayoral candidate in the fray. We will seek support from Samajwadi Party (SP) and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)”, said Nirupam, adding that the name will be decided on Friday.

When asked whether the party was indirectly supporting the Shiv Sena so that they are able to elect Mayor with a simple majority of 88 members in the house of 227 corporators, Nirupam said that they never ever spoke about giving support to the Shiv Sena. "Both Shiv Sena and BJP do not subscribe to the ideology of Congress and we cannot support either of the parties. We do not want to abstain from voting, so best way was to field the candidate. The High Command wanted the candidate to be fielded so that line of action was very clear for us”, said Nirupam.

The present party-wise strength in the house of 227 is Shiv Sena – 84+4 (independents), BJP – 82, Congress – 31, NCP – 9, MNS – 7, Samajwadi Party – 6, AIMIM – 2, ABS – 1, Independent – 1.

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