Mumbai, Jan. 12 -- Nationalist Congress Party leader Nawab Malik on Monday highlighted the party's significance in the upcoming Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) polls, claiming that the party will decide the majority in the otherwise "hung" house.

Speaking with ANI, Nawab Malik said, "I am saying this from the very beginning that BMC will have a hung house and no Mayor will be possible without NCP's help. So if anyone thinks there's a swing, then they are misled."

When asked about entering the BMC election alone and not with Sharad Pawar's faction as in Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation, Nawab Malik said, "It was the party workers' wish to fight alone. Whenever the merger of both NCPs is to happen, Pawar Saheb (Sha...