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The Samajwadi Party has decided to back bhai jagtap of the Congress in the December 27 legislative council elections. After a meeting of the party’s core committee on Saturday, Samajwadi Party legislator and party president in the state, Abu Asim Azmi, said that his party would support bhai jagtap to “check rising intolerance and attack on secular forces in the country”.

Regional Congress Committee (MRCC) president bhai jagtap and 12 others were acquitted last week for violating Covid norms in May last year and raising slogans against the Central government at Cadbury Junction.

The legislative council was adjourned twice over the issue of alleged irregularities in chikki purchase contracts.

We will be contesting on all the 227 seats in BMC and if we win, the mayor will be our party member, said bhai jagtap.

State environment minister Ramdas Kadam (Shiv Sena) and bhai jagtap (Congress) won two MLC seats in the city

TV actor Kamya Panjabi has joined the Indian National Congress and says she is looking forward to working under the guidance of party leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. Panjabi, known for her work on TV shows like "Banoo Main Teri Dulhann", "Maryada" and "Shakti", joined the political party on Wednesday in the presence of bhai jagtap, President, Mumbai Congress.

Congress MLA and Mumbai Youth Congress president Zeeshan Siddiqui has accused the party's city unit chief bhai jagtap of insulting him in a party event, exposing the rift within the organisation ahead of the crucial Mumbai civic body polls.

The Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) has named bhai jagtap as the new district returning officer (DRO) to oversee the intraparty elections of the city unit in place of Muzaffar Hussain. With this, the process to find a city party president may begin afresh by next week.

The BJP has criticized Congress leader bhai jagtap for likening the Election Commission to a dog sitting outside PM Modi’s residence, and demanded action against him. This follows Congress's allegations of voter data tampering in the Maharashtra Assembly elections, raising concerns about EVMs and increased voter turnout.

City Congress president bhai jagtap and working president Charan Singh Sapra on Friday urged CM Uddhav Thackeray and deputy CM Ajit Pawar to use ballot papers in polls. “From 2016 to 2019, over 19 lakh EVMs went missing, of which 9.6 lakh were manufactured by Bharat Electronics Ltd, and 9.

While the crucial elections to the BMC are a few months away, infighting in the Congress seems to have reached its peak, with the city Youth Congress chief, Zeeshan Siddiqui, knocking at the doors of Congress president Sonia Gandhi over the ‘indifferent’ attitude of Mumbai Congress president bhai jagtap.

Ahead of the 2022 BMC elections, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday appointed trade union leader bhai jagtap (62) as chief of the Mumbai Congress in place ofex-MP Eknath Gaikwad

City Congress president bhai jagtap on Wednesday presented a letter to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) opposition leader Ravi Raja to take up the issue of Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) owing Rs 71 crore to BEST for providing 1000 buses along with drivers during Covid-19 pandemic in the past one year.

The Congress has opposed BMC's plan to be the single planning authority for Mumbai. City Congress chief bhai jagtap said he was firmly opposed to any plan to make BMC the sole planning agency for Mumbai.

A day after marching to the office of Arnab Goswami’s Republic TV, senior Congress leaders led by Mumbai Congress president bhai jagtap and working president Charan Singh Sapra will meet police commissioner Parambir Singh to press for his arrest.

An election show organised by a news channel turned into a battleground when Congress and Shiv Sena activists clashed with each other outside the Vijay Salaskar Udyan in Jogeshwari on Saturday afternoon.

BJP's Kirit Somaiya lodged a complaint against Congress MLC bhai jagtap for derogatory remarks against the Election Commission, referring to it as BJP's 'kutta'. Somaiya called for legal action, citing Congress's dissatisfaction post their defeat in Maharashtra Assembly elections. This incident may impact the forthcoming Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation elections.

The Congress-NCP led Democratic Front government came in for a rude shock when one of their legislators bhai jagtap demanded that the BMC be bifurcated.

Following a demand by MLCs including Congress's bhai jagtap and BJP's Pravin Darekar, Maharashtra excise minister Shamburaje Desai on Wednesday ordered a probe into transfers in the excise department and said that action would be take in the case of four excise inspectors if there is any substance in the complaints raised by the MLCs.

The son of a former BJP MLA from Mumbai on Friday joined the Congress.

Hundreds of Congress party workers gathered at the Birsa Munda Chowk (Picnic Point) at Aarey Colony on Thursday morning to vociferously protest against the proposed metro car shed project within Aarey.

Noisy scenes were seen at a meeting organised by the Congress in Mumbai on Tuesday to discuss party vice-president Rahul Gandhi's scheduled visit to the city on January 15 and 16.