Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will address a rally in Mumbai next month, ahead of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections 2022, the country's richest civic body which the Congress once controlled.
The Congress Maharashtra in-charge H K Patil on Monday, November 1, announced that Rahul Gandhi has agreed to address party workers at a rally at Shivaji Park on December 28.
Speaking at the launch of Congress membership drive in the state, Patil said by December 28, which happens to be the party's foundation day, the city unit will enroll some 10 lakh members.
He said a digital membership drive has been started in all 10,000 booths in Mumbai whose civic body has 227 wards.
Meanwhile, State Congress Working President Naseem Khan said the basic values of the Constitution and the party are the same. Congress is the part of the MVA government-led by Shiv Sena.
Ever since the BJP has come to power (at the Centre), it has weakened the Constitution and there is no option in the country other than the Congress, the state minister said.
In the 2017 civic body polls, the Congress was relegated to the third position after the Shiv Sena and the BJP. The next polls are due in early 2022.
The Congress in Maharashtra and its Mumbai unit started a membership drive on November 1. The campaign is part of the nationwide Congress membership drive and will go on till March 31, 2022.
The drive in Mumbai assumes significance as the country's oldest political party was founded in the city in 1885.
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