Mumbai, Dec. 28 -- Maharashtra Congress president Harshwardhan Sapkal on Sunday announced that the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) will contest 62 of the 227 seats under the alliance in the BMC elections.

Sapkal said the BMC elections are not about a struggle for power for the Congress, adding that seat-sharing is not the party's primary concern.

"Both the parties are coming together. They will contest 62 seats. This is not a power struggle, but a convergence of ideas, and for us, seat sharing is not that important; we will go forward with the ideas," he told ANI.

The BMC elections, along with 28 other municipal corporations, are witnessing a shift in Maharashtra's alliance politics, with the parties in the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) going d...