India, Nov. 14 -- A day after speculation over merger talks between the two NCP factions was laid to rest, the Sunetra Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) is gearing up for a show of strength on Monday, when Union home minister Amit Shah visits Pune to inaugurate a memorial to the late NCP president and deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar.

Shah will inaugurate a statue of Ajit Pawar at the Pune Zilla Parishad premises, where the event is likely to be attended by NCP legislators, ministers, MPs and party functionaries.

On Friday, Parth Pawar, Sunetra Pawar's son and the party's national general secretary, asked NCP MLAs to mobilise party workers for the event and met with MLAs from Pune to coordinate the mobilisation.

The developmen...