India, Dec. 27 -- Former Pune mayor Prashant Jagtap joined the Congress on Wednesday, two days after resigning from the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (SP) over its decision to form an alliance with Ajit Pawar's NCP for the upcoming civic polls in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad.

Jagtap, who was also the Pune chief of the NCP (SP), joined the Congress in the presence of its Maharashtra president, Harshwardhan Sapkal, at the party's headquarters, Tilak Bhavan. Several office-bearers of the NCP (SP) from Pune also switched over to the Congress along with him.

Jagtap had openly opposed the decision of the NCP (SP) to ally with Ajit Pawar's NCP, asking how he could work with someone who had split the party and joined the right-wing M...