Politics

Mumbai civic polls: Congress and Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi seal alliance

December 28, 2025

Published - December 28, 2025 05:12 pm IST - Mumbai Maharashtra Congress President Harshwardhan Sapkal, addresses a press conference, in Mumbai on December 28, 2025 | Photo Credit: ANI The Congress and the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA), led by B. R. Ambedkar's grandson, Prakash Ambedkar, announced an alliance for the upcoming Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections on Sunday (December 28, 2025), with the VBA set to contest 62 of the 227 seats. Congress will contest more than 150 seats, while some seats will be allocated to the Rashtriya Samaj Paksha and RPI (Gavai), sources said.

Mumbai civic polls: Congress and Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi seal alliance

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The tie-up decision was announced by Maharashtra Congress president Harshwardhan Sapkal and VBA State vice-president Dhairyavardhan Pundkar.
Mr.
Sapkal said that decisions on alliances for the remaining 28 municipal corporations in the State would be taken at the local level, and both parties had authorised their local leaderships to take appropriate calls.
He said the Congress-VBA tie-up was a "natural alliance" based on shared ideology rather than mere electoral arithmetic.
"This is not a game of numbers, but a coming together of ideas.

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Mumbai civic polls: Congress and Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi seal alliance

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Mumbai civic polls: Congress and Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi seal alliance

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