Overview
- Supriya Sule confirmed talks to align with Ajit Pawar’s NCP and bring the MNS under the MVA for select municipal contests in Maharashtra.
- Hours after those discussions surfaced, Pune NCP-SP president Prashant Jagtap resigned and submitted his letter to state chief Shashikant Shinde.
- Jagtap said he will contest the Pune Municipal Corporation election but has not decided whether to seek any party’s nomination.
- Sule said no pact has been finalised and any move will wait for workers’ concerns to be addressed, adding she has not received any proposal for NCP-SP to contest on the NCP’s ‘clock’ symbol and expects to use the ‘tutari’.
- With polls for 29 municipal corporations set for January 15, parties are negotiating seat-sharing and symbols under compressed timelines.