Mumbai, May 18 -- The anti-merger Sunil Tatkare-Praful Patel faction within the Sunetra Ajit Pawar-led NCP is likely to join the BJP even as Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar is making preparations to call a core committee meeting to discuss differences within the party, sources said here today.
Sources said that the Tatkare-Patel faction within the Sunetra Ajit Pawar-led NCP which was always opposed to any merger of the two NCPs, even when the late Ajit Pawar was trying to achieve a merger when he was alive, is increasingly displaying signs that if Sunetra Pawar takes any more steps to merge her party with the Sharad Pawar-led NCP, it may decide to join the BJP.
Earlier, Sunetra Pawar's elder son Parth Pawar had led Chief Minister Deve...