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On poll-eve, ex-MP and Hingoli Congress chief joins NCP
Saturday January 28, 2012 12:44:52 PM,
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Sangli (Maharashtra): In a jolt to the Maharashtra Congress ahead of crucial civic and Zilla Parishad polls, Hingoli district party chief Shivaji Mane
Saturday joined the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).
Mane is a former two-time Lok Sabha member from Hingoli when he
was with the Shiv Sena. He switched over to the Congress a few
years ago.
Mane represented the Shiv Sena in parliament in 1996 and 1999, and
was appointed chief of Hingoli district Congress, in eastern
Maharashtra, five years ago.
Joining the NCP Saturday morning in the presence of NCP state
president Madhukarrao Pichad and state Deputy Chief Minister Ajit
Pawar, Mane lashed out at senior Congress leader Rajiv Satam for
"sidelining dedicated party workers and humiliating them in public
and private".
"I had brought this to the notice of all the Congress party top
brass in Maharashtra and New Delhi. However, the problem with the
Congress is, nobody is clear who the immediate boss is and who we
turn to for resolving our grievances or problems," Mane said.
He claimed that during the 2009 Maharashtra assembly elections,
former chief minister Ashok Chavan had sought his cooperation to
ensure victory for the party's candidates.
"We believed that after the assurances by Ashok Chavan, we would
be treated with dignity and fairness, but we were humiliated, some
leaders indulged in groupism and isolated genuine workers," Mane
pointed out.
Pichad announced Friday that an MP and a prominent party president
would join the NCP, though Pawar later clarified that the newcomer
was a former member of parliament.
However, in an anti-climax Saturday, Mane turned out to be a
former MP and a district Congress president.
Pichad and Pawar's assertions, nevertheless, succeeded in ringing
alarm bells in all the major parties given the spate of crossings
over by fence-sitters in the past few weeks, in the run-up to the
forthcoming elections to Zilla Parishads (Feb 7) and municipal
corporations (Feb 16) across the state.
Political circles are abuzz that the NCP has succeeded in
convincing at least four more legislators or parliamentarians to
support it and officially join it at an opportune moment.
Elections to 27 Zilla Parishads, 309 Panchayat Samitis and 10
municipal corporations are being held in the state next month.
Elections for municipal corporations, chiefly the country's
premier Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation in Mumbai, have evoked
much interest.
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