Updated On: 30 December, 2016 08:24 AM IST | | Dharmendra Jore
<p>The Congress says it will go by the popular opinion of party workers who wanted to contest separately</p>


Sanjay Nirupam, Mumbai Congress president said they had decided on going solo much earlier (right) Mumbai NCP president Sachin Ahir said his party did not want to wait for other parties to join them
The NCP and Congress will not forge a pre-poll alliance for the BMC polls. The NCP on Thursday announced its first list of 45 candidates saying that it will not wait for any other party, but will consider a non-Congress third front to be floated by some parties.