Exodus from the beleaguered Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) continues unabated. Now the former minister and NCP chief Sharad Pawar loyalist Dilip Sopal from Barshi assembly constituency in Solapur district will soon join Shiv Sena while former MP from Kolhapur Dhananjay Mahadik is set to enter BJP in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 31.
Former minister and son of another Pawar loyalist Padamsinh Patil, Rana Jagjit Singh Patil will soon join BJP. On Monday both Padmasinh Patil and Rana Jagjit Singh Patil were conspicuous by their absence at the party's Shivswarajya Yatra which had gone to his home district Osmanabad.