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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...

Goa Liberation Struggle The Portuguese retained their control over Goa, Daman and Diu even after the rest parts of India had gained freedom from the British. During the mid- fifties when the Lisbon Government refused to give up its claim over its ‘overseas colonies’, a large number of nationalists from other parts of India joined in the Goans in liberating the Portuguese colony. Bombay : Bombay had become a major centre of Goa liberation struggle from where many Goans and others planned their moves for forcing the Portuguese to quit Goa. However for a brief period, Pune had become a major centre of Goa Liberation struggle. In 1955, a large number of teams of Satyagrahis were sent from Pune to Goa to bring the territory into the national mainstream. Leaders of various regional and national political parties had joined the movement cutting across their political differences. The liberation movement which was initially restricted to Goans residing in Goa and to those settled ...