According to a senior NCP leader, they started getting phone calls from various disgruntled potential candidates from the ruling party after the party's list was declared. "The BJP leader from Kalyan, Pune and Vidarbha are now eager to join the Opposition front. Our leadership will take the decision over the induction of these ruling party leaders," said Sanjay Tatkare, the NCP spokesperson. "We are also dialling these senior leaders. An NCP leader said that they are also considering the caste and local politics arithmetics..