Amit Srivastava
It is hardly two months left for the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation’s (NMMC) election 2020. However, political parties have yet not decided candidates. While the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) has adopted a wait and watch formula, there is confusion in the Maha Vikas Aghadi of seat-sharing.
As per the sources, all three parties namely Congress, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Shiv Sena will retain the seat where they had won the 2015 election. However, the majority of the corporators of NCP have defected to BJP and they will contest the election with the BJP symbol. Similarly, there were sitting Congress corporators who had defected to BJP are seeking more than one seat. As BJP does not give more than one ticket in a single-family, corporators who defected to BJP are now planning to go back to their previous party. There are also possibilities that in a single-family, their members may contest from three different parties.
Since both Congress and NCP saw the defection of corporators from the party, they will have to find new candidates. While there is no clarity in the NCP, the Congress witnessed infighting over ticket distribution as several sitting corporators had demanded tickets for family members.
Early this week, around five corporators from Turbhe who earlier joined the BJP after leaving NCP have now defected to the Shiv Sena. Now, the old party workers in the Turbhe area have reportedly opposed it and they claimed that the development has dented their chance to get a ticket despite there are working for the party for many years. They alleged that these five corporators always worked against the party and their inclusion will impact severely in the upcoming election.
As per the sources, most of the parties will take a call of ticket distribution after Holi in March second week. “Candidates will be given very little time to file nomination and prevent the chance of defection,” said a senior party leader from the BJP. However, candidates are worried a lot as they will get very little time for election preparation. A BJP worker from Nerul said that they had received assurance of ticket but has been asked to not open their office or the start campaign. He says that despite he has received assurance, he is not sure he will get the ticket. “If the party has decided my name, what is the problem in starting the campaign,” said the party worker
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