Alliance has become a bone of contention for the Mumbai unit of the Congress party. While one section feels it would be wise to contest the upcoming BMC elections as part of the MVA, another wants to go solo.

An office-bearer of the Mumbai Regional Congress Committee, who is in favour of contesting civic polls in alliance, pointed out that “last (2017) election, we contested from more than 200 wards, but managed to win from merely 31 of them. Since then, nothing has changed for the Congress in Mumbai, hence it won’t be wise to contest the polls alone”.