5 Sena councillors who switched over to NCP back in party fold

July 08, 2020 19:03

Five councillors from Parner in Ahmednagar district, who switched over from the Shiv Sena to Nationalist Congress Party last week, rejoined the Uddhav Thackeray-led party on Wednesday.

Some media reports recently claimed there were tensions between the Shiv Sena and its ally NCP over the five councillors of the Parner Municipal Council switching over to the Sharad Pawar-led party.

They had last Saturday joined the NCP in the presence of state Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar at Baramati in Pune district.

On Wednesday afternoon, the five councillors along with Parner NCP MLA Nilesh Lanke and local NCP leader Bhau Koregaokar met chief minister and Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray at his residence 'Matoshree' in Mumbai.

The five councillors rejoined the Sena and said the chief minister assured to resolve their issues.

One of them, Mudassar Sayyad, told reporters that they had issues with the local Shiv Sena leadership.

"The water problem in our area wasn't getting resolved and we decided to work under the leadership of local NCP MLA Nilesh Lanke," he said.

The councillors said Thackeray has now assured them that their issues would be resolved.

Sources close to Thackeray said the chief minister made his displeasure known after the five councillors switched over to the NCP last week.

"When we are in an alliance and need to run a government, such developments don't bode well," Thackeray made it known, the sources said.

Ajit Pawar sent the councillors back to 'Matoshree' with the local NCP MLA, Sena sources said. -- PTI

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