While one faction of Congress, led by former mayors Vandana Chavan and Ulhas Dhole Patil, is pressing the party leadership to allow the PVA men to return to the party fold, another faction led by Ankush Kakde is strongly opposed to the move. The differences over the issue have been stretched to the limit, so much so that members of the both factions have started maligning each other in open. It was only last week that a statement making ugly charges against the woman corporators belonging to the Dhole Patil faction and the 10 PVA corporators, was distributed to media persons and political workers at the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) by a Kakde supporter.

Dhole Patil and Chavan retaliated by demanding the resignation of Congress corporator Nitin Jagtap,accusing him of distributing the statement. Jagtap denied having issued the statement.