MUMBAI, Nov. 14 -- A day after Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) factions ruled out merger talks, the Sunetra Pawar-led party is preparing for a show of strength on Monday, when Union home minister Amit Shah visits Pune to unveil a memorial to late NCP president and deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar. Shah will inaugurate Ajit Pawar's statue at the Pune Zilla Parishad premises. On Friday, Parth Pawar, Sunetra Pawar's son and the party's national general secretary, asked NCP MLAs to mobilise workers and met Pune legislators to coordinate arrangements. The mobilisation follows Supriya Sule, national working president of the NCP (SP), and Maharashtra NCP president Sunil Tatkare dismissing reunification speculation. "The party leadership wants to make a statement by demonstrating the NCP's strength during the inauguration," an NCP MLA said. The event assumes significance after the NCP (SP)'s victory in the Pune Graduates' constituency election. Its candidate, Harshada Jadhav-Deshmukh, defeated BJP's Smita Jadhav by 9,928 votes to win an MLC seat. The NCP had held the constituency but gave it to the BJP under a seat-sharing arrangement. On Thursday, Sule said merger talks had ended for her with Ajit Pawar's death. Tatkare had earlier said there was no substance to the speculation. Sule categorically denied reports that NCP national working president Praful Patel had met her in New Delhi. Speculation intensified after six NCP leaders met Shah in New Delhi on November 1 and were believed to have backed reunification. Shah is on a two-day Maharashtra visit. On Sunday, he will lay the foundation stone for a cooperative industrial unit in Talegaon Dabhade and visit Bharat Forge's Mundhwa facility. He will stay overnight in Pune and is expected to meet BJP, NCP and Shiv Sena leaders....