Mumbai: The Maharasthra Congress on Friday gave a red-carpet welcome to party Vice President Rahul Gandhi for his one-day visit. Many roads were plastered with posters and hoardings, all at the cost of defying the civic rules which bans such posters on trees, electric boxes and posts, despite the BMC Commissioner promising a hoarding-free city. Irked citizens have now voiced their complaints over this burst of paper for the young VP's visit.
Rahul, meanwhile, met workers and leaders from the party's faction-ridden city unit. This was his first visit to the city after taking over as the Vice President of the party.
He was accompanied by Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, state Congress chief Manikrao Thakre and AICC in-charge Mohan Prakash for the meeting at the party's state headquarters Tilak Bhawan in central Mumbai.
All MPs, MLAs, corporators, office-bearers and chiefs from the six district units of Mumbai attended the meeting with the Congress leader.
Mumbai Congress unit has been without a leader for the last one year, after Kripashankar Singh, facing allegations of corruption, resigned following the party's defeat in the civic elections last year. The party has not been able to find a replacement for Singh since then.
Party sources attribute the delay in appointment of a city unit president to infighting and decision-making regarding organisational matters in each of the six district units resting with the high profile MPs from Mumbai.
With additional information from PTI
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