<span style="color: #222222;">Former BJP MLA Vijay Ghodmare chose to join Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party today. Mr Ghodmare, who had represented Hingana constituency in Nagpur district, made the formal crossover at the residence of Pawar in Mumbai.<br />'' <br />''The NCP, once a ruling party in Maharashtra in alliance with the Congress, is now grappling with a crisis due to desertions by a number of leaders on the eve of elections. Senior leaders like Udaynaraje Bhosale, who quit as an MP from Satara, former State Minister Ganesh Naik, Sachin Ahir and Jaydutt Kshirasagar, MLAs Shivendrasinh Bhosale, Sandip Naik and Vaibhav Pichad among others, have left the party to join either the BJP or Shiv Sena. </span><br />