India’s solely BJP-Congress alliance, now in Maharashtra. And it has each leaderships fuming
Mumbai: Native BJP models in Maharashtra have cast an alliance with the Congress in the Ambernath municipal council, and with the AIMIM within the Akot municipal council to achieve management of the 2 city civic our bodies, a lot to the anger of the 2 nationwide events’ leaderships within the state.
With the partnerships drawing all-round flak, the state BJP management distanced itself from these native alliances and warned of strict motion, whereas the Congress dissolved its Ambernath unit.
Within the Ambernath municipal council of the Mumbai Metropolitan Area, the BJP joined palms with the Congress to maintain its ally, the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, out of energy.
Within the Akot municipal council in Vidarbha’s Akola district, the BJP joined palms with Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM, and different events, to achieve energy.
The BJP’s state management has despatched a discover to the native management in Akot and Ambernath, and mentioned it is going to take disciplinary motion.
Chatting with ABP Information Community, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis mentioned, “I’m saying in very clear phrases. We is not going to tolerate any alliance with Congress and AIMIM. This alliance must be damaged. If somebody has mentioned one thing on the native degree, it’s mistaken and there will probably be motion.”
The state Congress management has suspended its Ambernath president Pradip Patil, and dissolved the unit.
“There isn’t a query of us backing the BJP wherever. On the native degree, if there are any alliances being shaped after elections, they’ve to hunt our permission. We have now given these directions to everybody. We have now not gone wherever with the BJP and there’s no query of us going with them wherever sooner or later,” Maharashtra Congress president Harshwardhan Sapkal advised reporters.
“We have now requested for a clarification from our native taluka president and councillors there,” Sapkal mentioned.
In a press release on X, Congress chief Sachin Sawant mentioned varied social gathering staff have come collectively in Ambernath “setting apart social gathering affiliations and symbols in opposition to the corruption perpetrated by the native degree Shinde-led Shiv Sena.”
अंबरनाथ येथे पक्षीय अभिनिवेश व चिन्ह बाजूला ठेवून स्थानिक पातळीवरील शिंदे सेनेने केलेल्या भ्रष्टाचाराविरुद्ध विविध पक्षीय कार्यकर्त्यांनी अंबरनाथ विकास आघाडी स्थापन केली आहे. यात अपक्षही सामिल आहेत.
त्यामुळे काँग्रेस आणि भाजप एकत्र आले अशा बातम्या चुकीच्या आहेत. कृपया नोंद…— Sachin Sawant सचिन सावंत (@sachin_inc) January 7, 2026
He mentioned independents are additionally a part of this entrance and that claims of Congress and BJP having come collectively are “incorrect.”
The Print reached AIMIM chief Imtiaz Jaleel by way of a name for a remark, however there was no response. The report will probably be up to date if and when he responds.
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What occurred in Ambernath & Akot
At Ambernath within the Thane district, the BJP went solo within the election held final month and received 14 of the 60 seats.
The Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, the BJP’s ally within the Mahayuti authorities, emerged because the single-largest social gathering with 27 seats within the council, which is a part of the Thane district, the house turf of Deputy CM Eknath Shinde.
The BJP’s native unit cobbled collectively an alliance with the native unit of the Congress and the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Celebration (NCP), together with one impartial, to kind the ‘Ambernath Vikas Aghadi’ of 31 councillors and bought the bulk within the council.
The social gathering’s native unit submitted a letter to the Thane district collector on 31 December, informing the workplace about this formation, with the BJP’s Abhijit Karanjule Patil because the group chief.
Chatting with reporters on Tuesday, Balaji Kinikar, an MLA of the Shinde-led Shiv Sena, mentioned, “The native leaders out of their very own selfishness have shaped an unnatural alliance with the Congress merely for energy. They’ve punched holes within the BJP’s stance of ‘Congress-mukt Bharat’.”
At Akot in Vidarbha’s Akola district, the BJP emerged because the single-largest social gathering with 11 councillors within the 35-member native physique the place elections have been held final month for 33 seats. The AIMIM clinched 5 seats.
To realize management of the municipal council, the BJP’s native management shaped the ‘Akot Vikas Manch’ comprising the 2 Shiv Senas, the 2 NCPs in addition to Prahar Janashakti Celebration of Bacchu Kadu.
The AIMIM councillors are additionally a part of this entrance, whereas the Congress and Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi will sit within the Opposition.
Sanjay Raut, Rajya Sabha MP from the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena, mentioned, “The AIMIM is just not wherever round us, we aren’t wherever round them. However the BJP has a hidden alliance with the AIMIM, and at some locations like Akot it’s within the open. It’s their double normal.”
He mentioned the Congress tying up with the BJP can also be “mistaken”.
(Edited by Ajeet Tiwari)
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