Baba Siddique, who left the Congress party on Thursday, confirmed that he will join the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). "I will go with the Ajit Pawar group. My journey will be from Congress to Nationalist Congress Party", Siddique said speaking to media. 

He is the second senior Mumbai Congress leader to leave the party in the last one month after former Union minister Milind Deora joined the Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena in January. Siddique's son, Zeeshan Siddique is currently the Congress MLA from Bandra (East) in Mumbai. When asked whether Zeeshan will follow in his footsteps, Siddique said he will take his own call, news wire PTI report said.