NCP hearts flutter while Pawar flirts

8220;As of today, we NCP are only talking to Congress leaders. At least that is the official position,8221; an NCP MLA told this reporter. 8220;I too am waiting like you. What else can one do? We have decided not to speak to the press,8221; he said, yet adding that the Congress and NCP were likely to buy time till Wednesday.

But there was no denying the anxiety among a section of Pawar-supporters in western Maharashtra over reports that the NCP boss was planning to even shake hands with the National Democratic Alliance NDA.

An NCP man from Kolhapur indicated that any deal with the NDA would not be very welcome. 8220;Disagreement within is possible and it could snowball into a problem for the party. It will be rather difficult to be with the saffron alliance.8221;

This was despite Pawar claiming today that he saw 8220;something good emerging out of the talks with Congress on the formation of a new government in the State.8221;

Pawar, who has been snubbed elsewhere in the State, now has from the region all his seven Lok Sabha MPs including himself and 35 out of NCP8217;s 58 Assembly members. The NCP swept the polls in Satara where all its candidates won, except in Karad south assembly seat. It won five assembly seats each in Kolhapur and Sangli districts and seven in Pune.

The Republican Party of India Athawale faction, an NCP ally, won the Pandharpur Lok Sabha seat.

Now that he is being called a adich zilhyancha raja a ruler of two-and-half districts in the State, NCP-supporters and some Pawar sympathisers believe that if he decides to join hands with the NDA, it will be suicidal. 8220;It will be a blunder like the one he made when he joined Rajiv Gandhi8217;s Congress in 1986,8221; they said. The only good option, an NCP MLA conceded, was to sit in the opposition.

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