PUNE, Nov 11: The sharp differences in the loyalist camp and Kalmadi group came to the fore today with anti-Kalmadi corporators revolting against the official party candidates in the election for six members of the Pune Municipal Transport committee.Bapu Naik and Balasaheb Dabhekar today filed their nomination papers after city Congress chief Mohan Joshi announced the names of Jawahar Pardeshi, Satish Amrale, Sunil Bibwe and Shahaji Ranwade as official candidates in the afternoon.Joshi told media persons that the names of candidates were finalised after holding discussions with Rajya Sabha member Suresh Kalmadi and Minister of State for Public Works Balasaheb Shivarkar. He claimed that State party chief Prataprao Bhosale had authorised them to decide the names of candidates since the card committee was not existing.Reacting sharply to the names of candidates Pune City Youth Congress chief and corporator Sanjay Balgude alleged that Mohan Joshi decided the names of candidates without holding the meeting of the card committee. He said Shivarkar was never consulted over the issue since he was away in Mumbai. He also said Bhosale had never authorised Kalmadi, Shivarkar and Joshi to finalise the names of candidates. Besides Balgude, former mayor Vandana Chavan, Ajit Darekar and Ramdas Pawar were also present at the press conference. Interestingly the names of rebel Congress candidates Bapu Naik and Balasaheb Dabhekar have been proposed and seconded by BJP corporators.Like the Congress, three rebel BJP candidates are also in the fray. The BJP has fieled Deepak Jagtap as its official candidate while Raju Kulkarni, Suresh Malwadkar and Popat Gaikwad have also filed their papers. The Shiv Sena and the Nationalist Congress Party have fieled Ramprasad Parikh and Uday Mahale, respectively. Sayyed Afsar, Saroj Motilal and Balasaheb Janrao of the RPI also in the fray.The Congress and the NCP have not taken any decision on the possible cooperation between the two parties. However, leaders of both the parties do not rule out possibility of alliance. Both the Congress factions have claimed the support of RPI candidates.
