India, Nov. 16 -- After repeatedly indicating its reservations on an alliance with the Shiv Sena (UBT) due to the latter's decision to ally with the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), the Congress on Saturday finally announced that it would go solo in the BMC elections. Mumbai Congress chief Varsha Gaikwad expressed this desire of party leaders and workers in a Congress training session on Saturday, and Maharashtra in-charge Ramesh Chennithala upheld and announced it.

The Mumbai Congress training session, which was held at Malad, was also attended by party state unit president Harshwardhan Sapkal. He and other leaders tried to boost the morale of party workers after the party's massive defeat in the Bihar assembly elections and urged them...