Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Congress accuses BJP of targeting MLA Aslam Shaikh, attempting polarisation

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: `Basic issues remain unresolved, yet BJP trying to divert attention through communal politics`

"The BJP controls the BMC administration with the help of the municipal commissioner and is in power in the state as well. Yet, basic issues of Mumbai remain unresolved. Instead of addressing them, they are trying to divert attention through communal politics," she said. (PTI)

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: City Congress chief accuses BJP of trying to trigger Hindu-Muslim tensions by raising infiltration issue 

"In Malvani, Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians and Buddhists live together peacefully," Gaikwad added. She also accused the BJP of trying to trigger Hindu-Muslim tensions by raising issues of Bangladeshi and Rohingya infiltrators while ignoring civic concerns. 

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: `City is not owned by the rich from BJP,` says Congress MP

"Mumbai is not owned by the rich from the BJP," Gaikwad said, levelling allegations against Lodha regarding his redevelopment projects. Shaikh was the "voice of the poor in Malvani" and the originator of the "Malvani pattern" of communal harmony, she said.

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Satam "maligning and threatening" Shaikh, alleges Congress 

Addressing a press conference, Gaikwad claimed that Satam was "maligning and threatening" Shaikh to protect Maharashtra BJP minister and developer Mangal Prabhat Lodha. Lodha had on Friday accused Congress MLA Shaikh of obstructing anti-encroachment drives and protecting illegal occupants in Malvani area and requested the Mumbai police commissioner to take action.