Congress’ hall of fame had yet another addition in the last week of December. The city has produced some extraordinary Congress leaders who have been instrumental in the party’s growth by using their connections with the financial capital’s rich and famous, but none have been as successful as Sanjay Nirupam in putting the Mumbai Congress on the national map.

In fact, not many people in the country knew that the megapolis had an independent and ‘buzzing’ Congress organisation like the Mumbai Regional Congress Committee (MRCC) until the recent controversy over its magazine. Thanks to its president Nirupam and his team, who have been editing the party mouthpiece, ‘Congress Darshan’, the MRCC shot to national fame as the party marked its 131st Foundation Day on December 28.