Setback for NCP: Pawar loyalist Ashok Gawde likely to join Shinde faction of Shiv Sena

In a big jolt to the National Communist Party ahead of the Navi Mumbai civic polls, Ashok Gawde, party's erstwhile district president and Sharad Pawar loyalist, along with six other corporators is expected to join Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde's camp after submitting his resignation from the party post.