4 NCP men file nomination for post of PCMC panel chief

PUNE: Four candidates from the ruling Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) have filed their nominations for the post of chairperson of the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation standing committee on Thursday. The current chairperson Usha Waghire's one-year tenure ends in March.
Jagdish Shetty, group leader of NCP corporators, told TOI that district guardian minister Ajit Pawar directed that four candidates should file their nominations for the post."Pawar called up Azam Pansare, president of the Pimpri-Chinchwad unit of the NCP, and gave the directive. Accordingly, Dnyaneshwar Bhalerao, Prashant Shitole, Surdas Gaikwad and me filed nominations."
"Pawar will choose the chairperson and the three others will withdraw their nominations," he added.
PCMC town secretary Subhash Kale said that "No other candidates have filed nominations for the post. District collector Chandrakant Dalvi will preside over the meeting as a representative of the divisional commissioner to elect the new chairperson on Monday at 11 am.
The standing committee has a strength of 16 members. Election to the eight vacant seats of the committee was held during the general body meeting on February 13. Jagdish Shetty, Jitendra Nanaware, Ramdas Kumbhar, Prashant Shitole, Surdas Gaikwad and Asha Suryavanshi belonging to NCP Manohar Pawar of Congress and Sulochana Badhe of BJP were elected unopposed.