Ahead of crucial Mumbai civic polls, Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi The party’s Maharashtra in-charge HK Patil said on Monday that he would address a rally in the metropolis on December 28. Speaking at the launch of the Congress membership drive in the state, Patil said that by December 28, which happens to be the party’s foundation day, the city unit will nominate around 10 lakh members.
He said that digital membership drive has been started in all 10,000 booths in Mumbai which have 227 wards in the civic body. “Rahul Gandhi has agreed to address party workers at a rally at Shivaji Park on December 28,” Patil said. His address to the party will come ahead of the crucial elections to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the country’s richest civic body. Once Congress controlled.
In the 2017 municipal elections, the Congress had come third after the Shiv Sena and the BJP. The next election is to be held in early 2022. In Maharashtra, the Congress and its Mumbai unit launched a membership drive on Monday. The campaign is part of the nationwide Congress membership drive that began on November 1 and will continue till March 31, 2022.
The significance of this campaign in Mumbai is because the country’s oldest political party was founded in the city in 1885. Speaking at the event, State Congress President Nana Patole said that the Mumbai Congress will nominate 10 lakh people.
State Congress working president Naseem Khan said that the core values of the Constitution and the party are the same. Ever since the BJP came to power (at the Centre), it has weakened the Constitution and there is no other option in the country. Retained Congress, former state minister.
In Maharashtra, the Congress is part of the Shiv Sena-led MVA government.
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