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BMC polls: Sore with loss, activists and leaders abandon office

One look at the Congress and National Congress Party (NCP) offices in the city early on Friday and it looked like rats had abandoned a sinking ship.

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One look at the Congress and National Congress Party (NCP) offices in the city early on Friday and it looked like rats had abandoned a sinking ship. They wore a deserted look even as the counting of votes polled in the municipal elections was on.

Contrast that with the offices jam-packed with activists and leaders in the run-up to the election.

“On the counting day, party leaders usually track the results of the first few rounds and then decide whether to turn up at the office,” said an NCP office-bearer. He predicted that only winners would turn up at the office on Friday, even as he pointed out that there was hardly any elbow room there in the pre-poll scenario.

Some NCP activists at the office said there were “shocked” at the party’s poor performance. “We knew that the leaders wouldn’t turn up when we saw how the results were trending in the morning itself,” said an upset NCP activist.

Congress activists appeared bitter. It is not that we have only lost the civic polls. Our seats have reduced from 2007’s 71 to 51. We had also given more seats to the NCP to get into power,” said an activist from Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC), whose president Manikrao Thakare had turned up at the office in the morning itself.

“It is the results that matter at the end of the day for the high command and not the efforts you put in,” rued a Congress office-bearer, adding that the alliance with the NCP had not worked to anybody’s advantage.

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