ALBANY – Gov. Cuomo dropped another political bombshell on Mayor de Blasio Wednesday by vigorously defending Uber — a day before the City Council was scheduled to impose new limits on the popular car service.

Speaking on “The Capitol Pressroom” radio show, Cuomo indicated that he plans to go around de Blasio and ask Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito to postpone the vote.

The governor said it makes no sense to try to limit the number of licenses granted to the app-based service in New York City, as the mayor and Council have proposed.

“Uber is one of these great inventions, startups, of this new economy, and its taking off like fire to dry grass and it’s offering a great service for people and it’s giving people jobs,” Cuomo said.

“I don’t think that government should be in the business of trying to restrict job growth, I don’t believe you can restrict job growth.”

He also hinted that the state might get involved in the dispute.

“This gets very complicated, very quickly, and has statewide ramifications,” he said.

The mayor and the Council want to limit the growth of Uber and similar car services until it can complete a traffic congestion study in Manhattan, which officials said would take until April 2016.

Cuomo said he has never used Uber but he likes the company and wants to encourage it to stay in New York.

New York State has “worked very hard to create jobs” and Uber is doing just that, he argued.

“I think if you try to say we are going to cap your job growth here they’ll go next-door and grow their jobs,” Cuomo said.

“How do you really say to a company you can’t grow here and in the case of Uber they will move next-door. Next-door would be Westchester, Nassau, Suffolk, Rockland, etcetera, New Jersey. And I hope they wouldn’t move to Jersey.”

Cuomo sidestepped a question about whether he and deBlasio were on opposite sides of the fence again, saying the issue extends beyond the city.

“If you try to restrict travel among counties that is going to be a problem, in other words if you said the Nassau cars can’t operate in Manhattan and the Manhattan cars can’t operate in Nassau, now it’s my problem because you are restricting trade within a Metropolitan region,” he continued. “That’s not good for anyone.”

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. also came to the defense of Uber later in the day.

Mayoral spokesman Wiley Norvell said the governor was wrong the facts.

“The Governor is mistaken. Only vehicles licensed by New York City’s TLC (Taxi & Limousine Commission) can pick and drop off a passenger for a ride within the city. Licensed for-hire vehicles from Nassau and Westchester can only either drop off or pick up a rider in New York City as part of a trip outside the city. The issues here are serious for our city—protecting workers and passengers, fair service for people with disabilities, supporting public transit, addressing rising congestion. No one should be manufacturing pretexts for avoiding those pressing issues.”