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Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) person Supriya Sule connected Wednesday (December 24, 2025) stated that her enactment is making efforts to make an confederation with a operation of the Ajit Pawar-led NCP and the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) nether the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) for elections to immoderate of the municipal corporations successful Maharashtra.
“We are successful discussion; our efforts volition beryllium connected the aforesaid enactment till the end. However, successful a democracy, determination indispensable beryllium discussion, and radical person the close to explicit their will. Besides, Pune needs a alteration for development,” said Ms. Sule.
As polls for 29 municipal corporations successful Maharashtra are scheduled for January 15, the governmental parties successful the State are exploring each permutation and operation for making alliances and seat-sharing arrangements. For the polls to the Pune Municipal Corporation, the NCP-SP has been exploring an confederation with the NCP. The NCP-SP besides wants to bring connected committee the MNS for the polls successful Mumbai.
However, Ms. Sule did not clarify whether the NCP-SP and the NCP volition contention together, saying the last determination volition beryllium taken lone aft each the doubts of her enactment workers are addressed.
Meanwhile, Sharad Pawar loyalist and Pune NCP-SP enactment president Prashant Jagtap resigned connected Wednesday, successful an indicator that some the NCP factions volition contention unneurotic successful Pune.
“I volition ever person religion successful Sharad Pawar... today, tomorrow. I americium grateful for having worked successful respective roles for the past 26 years successful the party. I americium not the benignant of enactment idiosyncratic who volition contention from immoderate enactment for the involvement of redeeming my seat. I americium not the idiosyncratic who gets anxiousness aft losing elections and joins different parties for the winnability factor. I mislaid successful the past predetermination but built a web of workers and person religion successful the radical of my Hadapsar constituency,” helium said.
A time ago, Mr. Jagtap expressed his privation to resign, saying that if the enactment aligns with the NCP, helium would decidedly quit, arsenic the confederation would lone payment the Ajit Pawar faction. After the 2022 divided successful the undivided NCP, this is the archetypal municipal corp polls for 165 seats successful Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad, wherever some factions person been exploring an alliance.
Ms. Sule besides confirmed having a six-hour gathering with Mr. Jagtap to assuage his apprehensions. However, with the resignation submitted to NCP-SP State president Shashikant Shinde, it is wide that Mr. Jagtap is not blessed with the arrangements successful progress.
