Maharashtra Congress working president Arif Naseem Khan has resigned as the party’s star campaigner because neither his party nor MVA have fielded representatives from the Muslim community in the Lok Sabha polls. Khan is also upset because the Congress ignored him for the Mumbai North Central constituency.

The Congress had one or two Muslim candidates in the fray till 2019, but this year there are none. The Congress has one constituency—Mumbai North—still without a candidate, but a Muslim is unlikely to put up a good fight there, whereas North Central is said to be favourable ground because of a large Muslim presence of 6.50 lakh.