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Mumbai: With a marathon meeting of 5.5 hours, discussions on 55 suggestions from all its 114 candidates, former MLAs and party leaders for the 2019 Assembly elections, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Wednesday began preparations for next year’s civic polls. . All over Maharashtra.
In a meeting chaired by NCP president Sharad Pawar at Mumbai’s YB Chavan Center in Nariman Point, the party decided not to form a “blanket alliance” with any party for the local elections – seen as a mini-assembly election Leads – and decides for the local. Tie-up depending on the situation on the ground.
However, Shiv Sena is an ally of the NCP in the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance. willing to continue the alliance For civic polls in association with NCP and Congress.
“In the next 4-5 months, there are elections to local bodies like district councils, nagar panchayats, city councils and corporations. Pawar sir Asked all the leaders to start preparing the local administration of the party for the elections. There will be no broad alliance with anyone for these elections. We will take a call for each election depending on the local situation,” NCP Mumbai president Nawab Malik and a minister in the Uddhav Thackeray-led cabinet told reporters.
Elections to ten municipal corporations, including local bodies in major cities like Mumbai, Pune, Nashik, Nagpur and Thane, are due in the next six months.
Besides this, elections to municipal corporations like Navi Mumbai, Kalyan Dombivali and Aurangabad which were scheduled this year but were postponed due to Covid will also be held next year. Elections to a group of district councils and city councils are also scheduled for next year.
Congress leaders in Maharashtra have repeatedly said that they want to contest elections at liberty.
Wednesday’s meeting was attended by all NCP office-bearers, party meeting and former MLAs as well as the party’s unsuccessful candidates in the 2019 assembly elections.
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NCP’s Malik said NCP’s patron ministers and district coordinators have been asked to visit various districts, especially those which have been hit by floods since July.
We will once again start the Janata Darbar of NCP ministers at the party’s Mumbai office after Ganpati. Immersion Following all the covid protocols. The meetings were called off during the second wave of the pandemic. We will also start Janata Darbar in those districts where our guardians are ministers.
The ‘Janata Darbar’ was a concept introduced by the NCP after it came to power in 2019 – every week a minister from the party would meet people at the party headquarters and address their issues.
In Wednesday’s meeting, the NCP also decided to keep seats that were earlier reserved for candidates belonging to the Other Backward Classes (OBC) community, if the issue of political reservation for OBCs is not resolved by then.
The Supreme Court in May quashed the political quota for OBCs in local bodies, saying it was crossing the 50 per cent limit. Last week, all parties in Maharashtra met under the leadership of CM Thackeray and decided to delay the local elections till the political reservation for OBCs is restored.
Ministers asked to address the issues of NCP leaders on priority
An MLA from Nashik district, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told ThePrint that Pawar asked everyone present to raise their voices on specific issues that the people of his constituency are facing.
“The leaders raised issues of delay in getting electricity connections, shortage of COVID vaccines in some places, with many saying that individual households are being affected by the rise in fuel prices. Issues of recent floods in Marathwada districts also came to the fore,” the MLA said.
The MLA said that in the meeting other MLAs had mentioned that the issues being raised by the NCP leaders were not being resolved despite the party being the ruling constituent in the state.
“pawdosir He has asked all the ministers to look into the issues discussed today on priority.
“Regarding the issue of hike in fuel prices, he directed the leaders to bring it to the notice of the central government while maintaining the protocols related to COVID,” he said.
(Edited by Paramita Ghosh)
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