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Race for power begins in Navi Mumbai

By Dinesh Kamath

Above Picture: Election symbols of BJP, Shiv Sena, Congress and NCP

NAVI MUMBAI: In Navi Mumbai the members of Congress, Nationalist Congress Party, Bharatiya Janata Party and Shiv Sena are trying all possible tactics to emerge as winners in the forthcoming Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation elections. Congress and NCP have lot of common aspects between them. Same is the case with BJP and Shiv Sena. So even when there are differences between Congress and NCP members, and so also between BJP and Shiv Sena members, but somehow Congress and NCP tend to unite when it comes to giving a fight to BJP and Sena combined. History is the witness to such happenings. Congress and NCP can never be good bedfellows with BJP and Sena. That’s a kind of natural characteristic these parties possess.

In Navi Mumbai, we have Vithal More playing the spokesman for Sena, Manda Mhatre for BJP, Dashrath Bhagat for Congress and Naiks for NCP. All these local leaders are trying to come up with an equation that would suit each one best. With election approaching closer and closer there are hectic efforts being made by these leaders to arrive at a right equation. They are studying the statistics of the past elections in the city and accordingly drawing conclusions which could benefit them in the forthcoming NMMC elections.  

The high commands of all these four parties have asked these local leaders to hurry up and come up with positive solutions and adjustments that could benefit their respective parties.

In the meantime, the candidates who are sure of being given the tickets to contest the elections have already started trying all kinds of tricks to woo the people of Navi Mumbai. The old system of door to door campaigning is proving to be profitable for many of these candidates, in spite of there existing many new methods of campaigning given birth to by the advent of modern technologies. Desperation to win the election is making these candidates ignore their hunger, thirst, pains etc that they experience while they are campaigning. ‘Win at any cost’ has become their mantra.   

There are others who are just waiting to get tickets to contest the elections before they can go into the field and campaign with full gusto.