Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Jayant Patil during a press conference in Mumbai on July 2 informed media that his party has filed a disqualification petition against the 9 defected leaders in the Maharashtra legislative assembly.

“We have filed a disqualification petition to the speaker of the assembly and we will send hard documents as soon as possible. This disqualification petition was filed against 9 leaders. They didn't inform anyone that they are leaving the party which is against NCP. We have also written a letter to the election commission of India.," said NCP leader Jayant Patil.

"We are not accepting this, these 9 leaders didn't inform us before doing this (leaving the party). We believe most of the MLAs will come back to NCP and we will accept them again…” Patil added.