The fall and fall of the Congress in Pune Municipal Corporation
The fall and fall of the Congress in Pune Municipal Corporation CAMIL PARKHE | Sunday, 5 March 2017 AT 10:38 AM IST CAMIL PARKHE , PMC , Pune Municipal Corporation , Congress Bhavan , Nationalist Congress Party , Pune The Congress Bhavan and the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) headquarters located in Shivajinagar are separated only by a small lane. It was only incidental that the Congress ruled the Pune Municipal Corporation during the post-independent period for decades until its splinter group, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), took over the reigns a decade ago. The two neighbours i.e. The Congress Bhavan and the Pune Municipal Corporation had close ties besides their physical proximity. With the Bharatiya Janata Party storming into the Congress-NCP stronghold, the decades-old rule of the Congress in the civic body has come to an end. In the 162-member House, now, the BJP has 98 members, while the Congr...