Mumbai Live: Congress' Pravin Chheda join BJP, likely to replace Somaiya in Mumbai North East

In another setback to the NCP ahead of next month's polling, its state unit vice president
Bharti Pawar Friday joined the BJP, while Congress leader Pravin Chheda also returned to ruling party.
The two leaders joined the BJP in the presence of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and other senior functionaries of the party. Chheda, a three-term corporator in the Brihan mumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), had quit the BJP to join the Congress seven years ago reportedly due to his differences with the then local MLA Prakash Mehta, currently a minister in
the Maharashtra government.