Mumbai, April 20 -- Despite your proposal to allow you to contest the Dindori Lok Sabha seat, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) turned it down, and fielded a candidate. Won't it give an advantage to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)? I tried to reason with the NCP to leave this seat for me. It would have worked to their advantage and ours. Right now, with an NCP candidate contesting the elections from this area, we face the threat of splitting the votes between us. This is, in turn, going to benefit the BJP by giving them an upper hand, even with the few votes that they will be able to get in this constituency. I tried to tell the NCP, let us not split the votes and give the BJP a tough fight. They did not listen to me. I agree that the NCP has some advantage in this Lok Sabha constituency, as Yeola is represented by Chhagan Bhujbal in the legislative Assembly, and Nandgaon is represented by his son, Pankaj Bhujbal. But Chhagan Bhujbal's priority is to take back the Nashik Lok Sabha constituency. He can't afford to lose it. So all his efforts are going to be concentrated there....