Summary:
A district NCP leader said that when Jagtap could be given the ticket for Lok Sabha, taking back the 18 corporators into the party fold was no big deal. There is great deal of political animosity between Sena and NCP in Ahmednagar. This helped BJP’s Babasaheb Wakale in becoming the mayor despite BJP having just 14 members in the 68-member AMC. Nashik: With elections around the corner, the NCP high command is leaving no stone unturned and is likely to re-induct 18 expelled party corporators of Ahmednagar Municipal Corporation (AMC) in the party fold.The party had expelled these corporators earlier this year in January as they had voted for a BJP nominee in the mayoral elections held in December last year. “There is a distinct possibility that these 18 corporators could be taken back into the party on that day,” he said.All these 18 corporators are loyalists of the NCP Lok Sabha nominee from Ahmednagar Sangram Jagtap, who was instrumental in ensuring that BJP mayoral candidate got 18 votes of NCP corporators to win the mayoral polls.Apparently the Jagtap camp was averse to see a candidate from Shiv Sena, which emerged as the largest party in the AMC polls, win the mayoral elections..