NDA intends to “poach” nine former corporate executives from the Mumbai Congress to join the BJP: References
On Monday, in the presence of Maharashtra Deputy President Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Mumbai BJP president Ashish Shelar, around nine former Congress corporators from Mumbai would join the BJP. This is happening as the NDA is trying to “poach” certain Congress leaders in Mumbai in the run-up to the Assembly and Lok Sabha elections.
Two prominent Mumbai Congressmen, Milind Deora and Baba Siddique, have left the party in recent weeks. Baba Siddique will join the Nationalist Congress Party, headed by Ajit Pawar, whilst Deora has joined the Shiv Sena, led by Eknath Shinde.
The move suggests that the NDA is concentrating on Mumbai before the important elections. In the Lok Sabha elections of 2019, the NDA, consisting of the BJP and an undivided Shiv Sena, won every seat in Mumbai.
According to a poll conducted by India Today’s Mood of the Nation (MOTN), the Congress, the Sena headed by Uddhav Thackeray, and the NCP led by Sharad Pawar are part of the Opposition INDIA bloc, which is leading Maharashtra in the next Lok Sabha election.
According to the opinion survey, the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) will have 26 seats. On the other side, if Lok Sabha elections were conducted today, the BJP and its NDA partners are expected to win 22 of the state’s 48 Lok Sabha seats.
In Maharashtra, the Congress is predicted to win 12 seats, and its allies to win a total of 14 seats. According to the Mood of the Nation survey, the NDA is expected to get 40% of the vote, while the INDIA group is predicted to receive 45%.
After 55 years, the Congress party lost the family’s support when former Union Minister Milind Deora quit in January. Under the leadership of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, he joined the Shiv Sena.
After over fifty years of membership, former minister Baba Siddique resigned from the Congress on Thursday as well. Siddique, a prominent figure in Mumbai, 65, voiced his displeasure with the Congress’s current situation.
