Mumbai: Zeeshan Siddique, son of ex-Maharashtra minister Baba Siddiqui – who was shot dead on October 12 – joined the Ajit Pawar-led faction of the Nationalist Congress party Friday morning. He joined in the presence of Mr Pawar, who is also the Deputy Chief Minister. Mr Siddique will defend the Vandre (East) seat he won in the 2019 election when he was with the Congress. His opponent will be Varun Sardesai, the nephew of Uddhav Thackeray, whose Shiv Sena faction is allied with the Congress and Sharad Pawar’s NCP group as the Maha Vikas Aghadi. Expelled by the Congress in August – after reports of cross-voting in a legislative council election – Mr Siddique’s jump to the NCP comes a day after he hit out at the Maha Vikas Aghadi, accusing them of having deserted him after his father, a three-time Congress MLA who also moved to the NCP, died. Mr Siddique’s outrage was after the MVA said Vandre (East) will be contested by Thackeray’s Sena as part of a deal that will see his …