The ex-corporators of the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar) (NCP) from the Hadapsar assembly constituency have decided to stage a revolt against the candidature of Prashant Jagtap calling him an outsider imposed candidate.
Former standing committee chairman Dilip Tupe and former corporator Dattoba Sasane formed a panel named Hadapsar Vikas Aghadi in the 2002 Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) elections in 2002 which yielded positive results in the Hadapsar constituency. The revolting corporators have decided to form a similar alliance ahead of the assembly elections former corporators of Shiv Sena (UBT), Nationalist Congress Party (SP) and Congress Party will reportedly participate in the alliance. On Sunday, October 27, the corporators met MP Amol Kolhe and asked him to reconsider the NCP(SP) candidate from Hadapsar.
The corporator claimed that MP Amol Kolhe registered their complaint and assured them that he would discuss it with the senior leaders of the party.
Mahadev Babar, Yogesh Sasane, Anand Alkunte, Balasaheb Shivarkar, Nilesh Magar, Sameer Tupe, and Bandu Gaikwad, who were the aspirants from all the three parties of the Mahavikas Aghadi have now united against Prashant Jagtap. The revolting aspirants threatened to form the Hadapsar Vikas Aghadi if the candidature was not reconsidered.
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