India, Dec. 17 -- After the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Shiv Sena, the local leadership of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has now also sought to contest the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) elections independently.

NCP workers in Thane have communicated this demand to the party's senior leadership, according to Najeeb Mulla, president of the Thane unit of the NCP. Similar demands have previously been made by workers of the BJP and Shiv Sena, the NCP's allies in the Mahayuti government.

The NCP workers' demand comes days after the BJP's state president, Ravindra Chavan, announced on Friday that all parties of the Mahayuti alliance would contest the local body elections together. However, NCP president and deputy chief min...