It’s a deal: Congress State president Nana Patole, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray, and NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar announcing the candidates in Mumbai on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini With tensions continuing to run high within partners of the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) over the ceding of the Sangli Lok Sabha seat to Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena (UBT), top leaders of the Maharashtra Congress on Thursday including MPCC chief Nana Patole, former CM Prithviraj Chavan, and ex-Minister Balasaheb Thorat held a conclave to pacify the party’s restive cadre in western Maharashtra. The Thackeray group’s intransigence over contesting the Sangli seat, a Congress bastion for half-a-century since Independence, had provoked intense resentment among the Congress cadre in Sangli which refused to campaign for political neophyte Chandrahar Patil, a wrestler who was fielded by the Sena (UBT). The move caused the Congress’ aspirant for Sangli, Vishal Patil – the grandson of late Maharashtra CM and stalwart Congressman Vasantdada Patil – to rebel and contest as an Independent. This has set alarm bells ringing …