Azmi alleges 'understanding' between Congress & saffron parties

Mumbai: Alleging that Congress has an "understanding" with Shiv Sena and BJP, Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Abu Asim Azmi on Saturday said that his party would not support the saffron combine in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).

"There seems to be an understanding between Congress and Shiv Sena that while the Congress-NCP will run the state government, the saffron parties will govern the Mumbai civic body," Azmi said in a press conference today.

When asked whether his party, which won nine seats, out of the 118 in Mumbai, would support the Shiv Sena-BJP combine, Azmi said, "SP and Shiv Sena are two parallel lines, which will never meet. Our party will not support Shiv Sena."

The SP MLA held Congress responsible for "eating into" his party's votebank. "At some places, we lost by merely 150 votes," Azmi said.

The SP leader said that when he exercised his franchise on Thursday, he himself had no other option but to vote for Congress, as SP had not fielded any candidate from that area. "I did not want to vote for Congress, but I had to, because I neither wanted to go for Shiv Sena, nor the MNS," he said.

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