Mumbai, Feb. 6 -- In a candid admission of dissension within the Mumbai Congress, Milind Deora, Congress leader and former Union Minister, said on Tuesday that "infighting" was threatening "our base in Mumbai" and that the city party unit "cannot become a cricket pitch for sectarian politics, with leaders pitted against one other".

A day after he said he might even re-consider "if it is worth fighting elections or not", Deora said he was "disappointed" with "infighting" within the Mumbai Congress and indirectly blamed city party unit president Sanjay Nirupam for contributing to "sectarian politics" within the party set up.

In a series of tweets put on the sorry state of affairs within the Mumbai, Deora said: "In a city like Mumbai, which ...