With uncertainty shrouding the future of the three-party ‘Maha Vikas Aghadi’ coalition following Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde’s intra-party rebellion, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar has exhorted his partymen to start preparing for the upcoming Mumbai civic body poll without the expectation of alliances.
Following Mr. Shinde’s revolt and the toppling of the Uddhav Thackeray-led MVA government, a cloud hangs over the future of the coalition - now comprised of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena faction, the NCP and the Congress.
At a meeting of party workers to plan for the crucial Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) poll on Wednesday, Mr. Pawar is believed to have urged his partymen to go ahead with the preparations without thinking of who would fight alongside them.
