Pune: After CM steps in, NCP agrees to send mayor to attend PM function

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Pune on Saturday.

With non-BJP parties threatening to boycott Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s function in the city on Saturday to mark the first anniversary of the Smart City Mission over the non-inclusion of Pune mayor’s name in the list of invitees, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis intervened Friday evening to defuse the situation after which the mayor was given a green signal by his party NCP to attend the function.

City NCP chief Vandana Chavan said the party had decided that the mayor, Prashant Jagtap, would be present at the PM function since the chief minister had ordered a probe to find out how the mayor’s name was missing from the list of invitees.

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“The chief minister has said that non-inclusion of mayor’s name in the invitation card happened unknowingly. An inquiry has been ordered, so mayor would be present for the function. However, no other NCP corporator would attend the function,” she said. Earlier, NCP, Congress, MNS and Shiv Sena had decided to boycott the function.