Mumbai Cong. to woo Gujaratis for corporation polls
The Hindu
The party to approach its Gujarat leaders to address community gatherings in the city
In a bid to woo Gujarati voters who stood with the BJP since the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the Mumbai unit of the Congress has decided to approach its Gujarat leaders to address community gatherings in the city ahead of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) polls.
“We will be organising community gatherings in different parts of the city where the Gujarati population is in large numbers. We want to approach them. They had been with us for decades. Now it is time to bring them back to us,” said Mehul Vora, president, Mumbai Congress Gujarati cell.
The party had organised the first of such programme in the series with Hardik Patel, working president of the Gujarat Congress, addressing at Mumbai’s Ghatkopar area, known for the Gujarati population, on Tuesday. It was attended by Mumbai Congress president Bhai Jagtap and executive president Charansingh Sapra. Similar programmes will be organised at Vile Parle, Goregaon, Borivali in the course of next month. Gujarat Congress president Amit Chavda, Leader of the Opposition in the Gujarat Assembly Paresh Dhanani will be addressing these functions ahead of BMC polls.
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