Ncp In Mumbai Civic Polls

Ahead of the Mumbai civic body election next year, a Congress leader's comment on going it alone has sparked a rift in Maharashtra's ruling coalition. Both the Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) have reacted sharply to the comments.

The Nationalist Congress Party on Saturday expelled all 18 of its newly elected corporators in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar for voting in favour of the BJP during the mayoral poll in the civic body there.

The results of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, or BMC election announced on Thursday threw up some surprises with a number of prominent names biting the dust, while quite a few candidates from political families made it to the country's richest civic body. Several relatives of established politicians made it to BMC, which went to polls on F...

The Congress today was unable to cut short its trend of losing important elections - it downsized its share considerably in the municipal corporation that runs Mumbai, accruing 31 seats (according to leads at 6 pm), down from 52. Sanjay Nirupam, the head of the party in Mumbai, offered to resign, accepting responsibility for the skimpy result.

When Sharad Pawar voted this morning at booth number 214 in Mahalaxmi for Mumbai's civic elections, he did not have the option of choosing his own Nationalist Congress Party. The NCP has no candidate there. The party's chief will have to choose between the Shiv Sena, the BJP, old partner Congress or then just pick the NOTA - none of the above - opt...

The Shiv Sena, which rules Maharashtra along with the BJP, has ruled out all alliances with the party in future. The current alliance will stay, but the two parties will compete in the elections for the Mumbai civic body BMC, the country's richest municipal organisation, party chief Uddhav Thackeray said today. Soon after, Maharashtra Chief Ministe...

Sounding confident ahead of local body polls in Mumbai, the Nationalist Congress Party today said it could contest all 227 seats if an alliance with the Congress doesn't work out. It will wait for the alliance to materialise till a specific date, and not the last minute according to NCP city unit president Sachin Ahir.

Counting in the municipal elections in two districts of Maharashtra is nearly over with both the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) having retained their respective strongholds of Aurangabad and Navi Mumbai. Meanwhile, the party run by Hyderabad's Owaisi brothers - All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen or MIM - has ma...

Counting of votes for Mumbai's Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation and nine other civic bodies in Maharashtra began this morning. In very early trends, the Shiv Sena and NCP are neck and neck in the lead in Thane. In Pune, the NCP has suffered an early blow as its standing committee chairman Nilesh Nikam has lost, though the party is ahead.

A tragic testimony to Mumbai city's fervour during election campaigning was witnessed on Sunday. Four loyalists of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) died and 11 supporters suffered minor injuries after one of the followers waving a flag hoisted to a metal rod touched a live high-tension wire during canvassing for NCP at New Shivaji Nagar in Kalw...

There have been clashes between Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) workers in Navi Mumbai during the civic polls on Sunday.

Ahead of the Mumbai civic body election next year, a Congress leader's comment on going it alone has sparked a rift in Maharashtra's ruling coalition. Both the Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) have reacted sharply to the comments.

The Nationalist Congress Party on Saturday expelled all 18 of its newly elected corporators in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar for voting in favour of the BJP during the mayoral poll in the civic body there.

The results of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, or BMC election announced on Thursday threw up some surprises with a number of prominent names biting the dust, while quite a few candidates from political families made it to the country's richest civic body. Several relatives of established politicians made it to BMC, which went to polls on F...

The Congress today was unable to cut short its trend of losing important elections - it downsized its share considerably in the municipal corporation that runs Mumbai, accruing 31 seats (according to leads at 6 pm), down from 52. Sanjay Nirupam, the head of the party in Mumbai, offered to resign, accepting responsibility for the skimpy result.

When Sharad Pawar voted this morning at booth number 214 in Mahalaxmi for Mumbai's civic elections, he did not have the option of choosing his own Nationalist Congress Party. The NCP has no candidate there. The party's chief will have to choose between the Shiv Sena, the BJP, old partner Congress or then just pick the NOTA - none of the above - opt...

The Shiv Sena, which rules Maharashtra along with the BJP, has ruled out all alliances with the party in future. The current alliance will stay, but the two parties will compete in the elections for the Mumbai civic body BMC, the country's richest municipal organisation, party chief Uddhav Thackeray said today. Soon after, Maharashtra Chief Ministe...

Sounding confident ahead of local body polls in Mumbai, the Nationalist Congress Party today said it could contest all 227 seats if an alliance with the Congress doesn't work out. It will wait for the alliance to materialise till a specific date, and not the last minute according to NCP city unit president Sachin Ahir.

Counting in the municipal elections in two districts of Maharashtra is nearly over with both the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) having retained their respective strongholds of Aurangabad and Navi Mumbai. Meanwhile, the party run by Hyderabad's Owaisi brothers - All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen or MIM - has ma...

Counting of votes for Mumbai's Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation and nine other civic bodies in Maharashtra began this morning. In very early trends, the Shiv Sena and NCP are neck and neck in the lead in Thane. In Pune, the NCP has suffered an early blow as its standing committee chairman Nilesh Nikam has lost, though the party is ahead.

A tragic testimony to Mumbai city's fervour during election campaigning was witnessed on Sunday. Four loyalists of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) died and 11 supporters suffered minor injuries after one of the followers waving a flag hoisted to a metal rod touched a live high-tension wire during canvassing for NCP at New Shivaji Nagar in Kalw...

There have been clashes between Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) workers in Navi Mumbai during the civic polls on Sunday.