Congress rebels face six-year expulsion as party cracks down on dissent in Pune

Do you consciousness specified beardown enactment is necessary?

Bagul is the incumbent vice-president of the enactment and has filed his information from Parvati. Anand is simply a erstwhile vice-president of the Khadki Cantonment Board and has filed his papers from Shivajinagar, portion Vyavahare is simply a erstwhile politician who has filed her papers from Kasba Peth.

Our enactment had been fixed the Kasba and Shivajinagar seats and we person fielded Ravindra Dhangekar and Datta Bahirat from there. The Parvati assembly summons was fixed to Ashwini Kadam of the NCP. This benignant of rebellion is against the enactment directives and hence, we person decided to instrumentality stern action.

We besides person impervious that Anand’s woman Pooja, who heads the Congress party’s women’s cell, has been canvassing for her husband. We person submitted impervious of this to the authorities leadership.We person besides recommended that Pooja Anand beryllium expelled from the party.

They were Congress loyalists. Will they airs a menace to the authoritative Congress candidates successful Kasba and Shivajinagar?

We volition spell to the constituencies and explicate to the voters that the enactment has done a batch for these leaders, who person present decided to rebel. How tin they accidental that they person been denied a just chance? Aba Bagul was a six-time corporator and lawman politician of the city, isolated from being the president of the lasting committee successful the Pune Municipal Corporation. Vyavahre was the archetypal pistillate politician of the city. How tin Bagul and Vyavahare encase themselves with the loyalist tag erstwhile some person near the enactment doubly successful the past? No, they volition not airs a threat.

Dhangekar, the Kasba candidate, has done a batch of enactment successful his constituency. Here, radical person earlier rejected the BJP. In the Cantonment constituency, the sitting BJP MLA faces an anti-incumbency question arsenic helium has not done immoderate factual work. We expect that our campaigner for the seat, Ramesh Bagwe, volition triumph with a bully margin, particularly since our enactment had won by a borderline of much than 13,000 votes from this constituency during the Lok Sabha elections.

What is the run strategy for the assembly seats successful Pune?

We person acceptable up our coordination committees astatine the metropolis level and jointly with the MVA astatine the assembly-segment level. All issues volition beryllium addressed astatine these levels. We besides person 4 to 5 different committees that volition instrumentality attraction of ineligible issues and different captious concerns with attraction and integrity. We besides person teams which volition enactment crossed societal media platforms to supply reliable accusation and prosecute with the public.

In addition, we person booth committees for the assembly segments. Each booth, which caters to astir 1,000 voters, volition person 11 booth committee members. Each polling presumption has astatine slightest 8 to 9 booths and the committees volition guarantee that they absorption connected each booth from the precise start, performing tasks similar handing retired pamphlets, manifestos and voting slips.

What are the cardinal issues successful this assembly election?

While Leader of the Opposition successful the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi precocious unveiled the Congress party’s manifesto, we volition soon merchandise a city-focused manifesto. This manifesto volition code cardinal municipality challenges similar postulation congestion, stream pollution, expanding flyover infrastructure, and making Metro transport much affordable.

For example, portion a Metro summons mightiness outgo astir Rs 10, parking fees are often higher. We volition purpose to code this imbalance. We are besides committed to improving nationalist transport by deploying smaller buses for amended connectivity successful the Peth areas. Despite attempts by the BJP authorities to unopen down the BRTS, we judge the strategy is indispensable and program to reinstate it soon.

The Congress has consistently prioritized women’s information and we are committed to strengthening these efforts. We volition guarantee that the constabulary fulfill their responsibilities diligently, putting an extremity to the signifier of paying for and getting posts. We volition guarantee determination are nary fake encounters and volition springiness accent connected mounting up fast-track courts.

What is your party’s instrumentality connected the Maratha preservation issue?

Maratha activistic Manoj Jarange Patil has backed retired of electoral politics. There is dissatisfaction among the Maratha assemblage with the Eknath Shinde authorities implicit the preservation contented . The Shinde medication initially promised reservation, issued a letter, and past backed out. Now, the BJP is shifting absorption and challenging the Congress to perpetrate to Maratha reservations wrong the OBC category. Until the caste census is released, the nonstop details of who qualifies for what benignant of preservation stay uncertain.