The NCP has agreed to allow Congress to contest from ward number 50. Congress had been insisting on this seat for senior party leader Gurudas Kamat’s nephew.
The Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), on Friday, finally came to an understanding about the allocation of seats in the upcoming Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections.
The BMC election will be held on February 16.
The NCP has agreed to allow Congress to contest from ward number 50. Congress had been insisting on this seat for senior party leader Gurudas Kamat’s nephew.
After the city leaders from both the parties failed to decide amicably on the allocation of the wards even after deliberations for over a week, chief minister Prithviraj Chavan and senior NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal intervened to sort out the problem.
The NCP had been demanding ward number 50 for Shashank Rao, son of senior NCP and union leader Sharad Rao, and one in Chembur for its former corporator Ravindra Pawar.
Both the parties have avoided announcing the names of the candidates to keep rebellion at bay.
The Congress offered to share ward number 56 (Versova), where the party’s candidate stood second in 2007 election. The ward is reserved for a general candidate and a sitting corporator from Shiv Sena.
NCP city unit chief Narendra Varma said: “With the finalisation of the sharing of wards between the two parties, the distribution of nomination forms will start from Saturday.”
Of the 227 wards in Mumbai, NCP will contest from 58 and Congress from 169.
Party manifesto for the zilla parishad elections will be released in next couple of days, said the party’s state head Madhukar Pichad. The seat-sharing between the two parties for other municipal corporations have also been finalised.
Pichad said that both the parties have agreed to form alliances in Thane, Nagpur, Ulhasnagar, Nashik, while they are contesting independently in Amravati, Pimpri-Chinchwad and Solapur municipal elections.
“In Thane, the break-up will be 70:60, Nagpur 29:116, Nashik 60:54 and Ulhasanagar 54:40 between the NCP and Congress respectively,” Pichad said. “At the zilla parishad level, we are contesting alone, except that the local leadership was keen in joining hands with any of the 27 bodies that have voting on February 6,” he added.
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