kolhapur the nationalist congress party ncp which has been congresss ally in the civic body since the last five years declared on thursday that the latter would be its main rival in the forthcoming kolhapur municipal corporation kmc elections ncp leader and former minister hasan mushrif said whatever funds the kmc got in the last five years were because of former deputy chief minister ajit pawar congress is our rival and the bjpshivsenatararani aghadi cannot even come close to assume power in the kmc the people know that none of the ncp corporator was involved in any tender or tdr or reservation case we are clean barring one case of corruption wherein our corporators protested in unison against the then mayor trupti malavi and forced her to resign mushrif said while speaking to newsmen addressing the partys congregation mushrif said ncp has received 210 applications from aspirants for contesting 81 seats we will sort the applications and select the best candidates he said he took a dig at the bjptararani aghadi alliance and said both the parties are busy borrowing candidates of other parties rs 1100 crore was brought to the kmc in the last five years pawar was the finance minister then and ensured that the civic body got ample funding we will face the elections with the works we did in the last five years the bjp government denied kolhapurs claim in the smart city completion but i assure that the ncp will make the city worldclass mushrif said he also criticised district guardian minister chandrakant patil for putting a stay on the sanjay gandhi niradhar yojana pensions he alleged that the district administration deliberately denied pensions to around 3000 widows and poor people on patils call their pensions are deposited in the bank however the amount has not been delivered to the beneficiaries i am surprised how patil could do this he must understand that pension is the sole source of earning for 3000 families mushrif said the ncp and congress shared power in the kmc and divided the mayoral post between them for 25 years each earlier this year malavi was nabbed by the anticorruption bureau acb for allegedly accepting bribe despite the growing clamour against her malavi refused to step down thereafter ncp corporators boycotted her events and forced her to resign now the ncp leaders are worried that the issue might crop up in the kmc election campaign corporator raju latkar indicated that the congress faction and the people who are with the tararani aghadi now had supported malavi those who were with the tainted exmayor are now talking about anticorruption however people know how much we had worked for the city he said